Software Engineer, Backend

Role overview

Backend-leaning Software Engineer at Vercel building scalable, high-performance services for user, group, and membership management with strong security and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure and reliable backend systems at high scale.
• Develop identity synchronization and lifecycle management using SCIM and related standards.
• Implement and operate services including participation in scheduled on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale projects with dependencies.
• Build enterprise services using TypeScript, REST APIs, and JSON.
• Work with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes, etc.) to deliver scalable, high-availability applications.

Requirements

• Proficiency with TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js.
• Strong security architecture knowledge, including LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, SSO, OAuth2, OpenID Connect and web protocols (XML, SOAP, JSON, REST).
• Familiarity with access control models: RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC.
• Experience with SQL.
• Practical experience developing and improving Node.js applications.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Nice to haves / additional signals

• Experience working with cloud-native databases (SQL and NoSQL) and AWS.

Location / work setup

• SF, NY, London, Berlin commuting-distance candidates have in-office anchor days Monday, Tuesday, and Friday.
• Candidates beyond that distance are fully remote.