Director, Software Development

OneSpan helps the world's leading banks, enterprises, and governments secure digital identities, transactions, and agreements.  We empower critical infrastructure organizations to thrive by enabling secure, compliant, and frictionless digital interactions. Trusted by 60% of the world's top 100 banks, we protect over 300 million endpoints globally with award-winning authentication, mobile app security, and anti-fraud solutions. Our Passkey Solution — built on FIDO2/WebAuthn — represents a cornerstone of our next-generation authentication portfolio and a recognized market-leading product. Join us in shaping the passwordless future.

We're looking for a Director of Software Development to join our team in San Jose, CA.  You will own the delivery of scalable, secure backend services for our authentication and identity platforms. You'll set technical direction, lead distributed engineering teams, and partner closely with Product, Security, and Platform to ship features that protect our customers' most sensitive transactions.

What You'll Do

• Set technical and product strategy for our authentication and identity platforms, partnering with Product Management on roadmap and priorities.
• Lead distributed engineering teams through the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure REST APIs and backend services.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and hands-on guidance for engineering managers and senior engineers.
• Drive scalability, reliability, and security across distributed systems, including zero-downtime deployments, observability, and resilience practices.
• Partner with Product, Security, and Platform teams to deliver high-impact features on schedule.
• Present and demonstrate product capabilities and technical vision to internal stakeholders, customers, and partners.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development practices to improve engineering velocity and quality.

What You'll Bring

• 15+ years of software product delivery experience, building and operating products at scale for SaaS and/or on-premise customers.
• 8+ years leading distributed, multi-team engineering organizations.
• Proven experience with identity and authentication platforms.
• Strong background designing and scaling distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience with zero-downtime deployments and production-grade, highly available systems.
• Experience delivering products backed by both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-based deployment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Preferred

• Experience leading engineering teams in adopting AI-assisted development tools and workflows.

Why Join OneSpan

• Lead the product strategy for a market-leading passkey solution trusted by some of the world's largest banks.
• Work at the frontier of FIDO2/passkey technology with a team that has been in the space from the beginning.
• Collaborate with a global team of security experts and make a tangible impact protecting hundreds of millions of users.
• The opportunity to shape a category-defining product at the forefront of the passwordless movement, with real impact on how hundreds of millions of people authenticate.
• Be part of a company recognized as a KuppingerCole 2026 Leadership Compass leader in Passwordless Authentication for Enterprises.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without the need for employer sponsorship.

Salary: $230,000 - $315,000 (depending on experience and qualifications) with bonus.

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