Principal Software Engineer - Grails Server Page

🕒 June 18, 2025

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Saviynt

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $130M Private Equity Round on 2021-09

SaaS • Cybersecurity • Enterprise

Saviynt is a leading provider of cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions. Their platform, known as the Identity Cloud, offers comprehensive identity governance, administration, and application access governance. Saviynt's solutions focus on secure identity management, ensuring compliance, modernizing legacy systems, and supporting multi-cloud environments. They serve a wide range of industries including healthcare, financial services, and government sectors. Leveraging AI/ML, Saviynt provides in-depth insights and analytics for enhanced identity security. They are recognized for their robust capabilities in identity governance and administration, helping organizations to efficiently manage and protect employee, contractor, partner, and machine identities.

📋 Description

• Saviynt is an identity authority platform built to power and protect the world at work. • Saviynt’s Enterprise Identity Cloud gives customers unparalleled visibility, control and intelligence to better defend against threats while empowering users with right-time, right-level access to the digital technologies and tools they need to do their best work. • Our platform unifies identity governance (IGA), privileged access management PAM, granular application access, and cloud security to deliver secure and compliant digital transformation for global enterprises. • You are a hands-on problem solver and technical builder who thrives in writing production-grade code every day, leading architecture reviews by example, and delivering high-impact features from concept to deployment. • You're a deep expert in Identity Governance, especially in Access Requests, Dynamic Attributes, Workflow Engines, and Application Access Flows. • You love getting your hands dirty in code while mentoring others and driving product quality. • You excel at collaborating with colleagues in engineering, product, and across functions throughout the organization. • You're highly skilled at solving complex technical challenges with innovative, out-of-the-box solutions. • You create a supportive and approachable environment, teaching members of your team to be self-sufficient while providing constructive feedback. • You help your team think critically, grow, and develop a passion for their progress within the company.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of full-stack, hands-on software development experience, with a proven ability to architect, build, and maintain complex enterprise-grade applications end-to-end • Expert-level command of Groovy on Grails, including GSP templating, dynamic form rendering, and controller/service level customization; must be capable of re-architecting legacy Grails codebases for modern quality, scalability, and modularity • Strong experience designing and maintaining Access Request Platforms—including Dynamic Attribute engines, entitlement resolution, workflow engines, request/approval/task orchestration, and multi-app provisioning logic Deep understanding of Saviynt or similar IGA platforms SailPoint, Oracle, ForgeRock) and the nuances of role-based access control, birthright access, and fine-grained entitlement management • Proficiency in: Grails, Groovy, GSP, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Quartz Scheduler • React, JavaScript/TypeScript, AJAX-based dynamic form handling • SQL, HQL, and advanced query optimization across large datasets and high-transaction tables • RESTful API design, consumption, and service layer abstraction for access operations • Experience solving real-world issues involving: Complex form validation and rendering failures (e.g., dynamic attribute dependencies) • Broken approval flows, entitlement resolution mismatches, and request submission errors • High-volume request processing, entitlement exclusions, and data partitioning performance bottlenecks In-depth understanding of frontend-backend coupling in Grails/GSP environments and strategies for modular refactoring Strong familiarity with debugging and monitoring tools: Kibana, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Postman, and in-app telemetry Working knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices: Git/GitHub, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (nice to have) • Able to set up pipelines, write deployment scripts, and automate validation steps • Track record of delivering clean, maintainable, and testable code quickly with ownership and accountability Prior experience leading re-platforming efforts or architectural migrations in legacy code environments to drive scalability, resiliency, and maintainability • Comfortable working closely with QA, Support, Product Management, and Field Engineering to triage and resolve escalations quickly • Strong communicator and collaborator who pairs well, mentors others, and thrives in agile, cross-functional teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Complete security & privacy literacy and awareness training during onboarding and annually thereafter • Review (initially and annually thereafter), understand, and adhere to Information Security/Privacy Policies and Procedures