Software Engineer, Backend

Vercel is seeking a backend-leaning Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance systems. Leveraging JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, SQL and NoSQL cloud-native databases, and AWS, you will develop solutions for user, group, and membership management while ensuring the highest levels of security and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Deliver secure, reliable, and scalable services that exceed industry standards and customer expectations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and peer teams to deliver large-scale projects with cross-team dependencies.
• Maintain and operate services at high scale, participating in scheduled on-call rotations to ensure reliability.
• Implement identity synchronization and lifecycle management solutions using SCIM and other relevant standards.
• Work with infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes) to deliver scalable, high-availability applications.
• Build and maintain high-quality enterprise software using TypeScript, REST APIs, and JSON.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js.
• Strong knowledge of security architecture, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, SSO, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect, plus web protocols like XML, SOAP, JSON, and REST.
• Familiarity with access control models such as RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC.
• Experience with SQL.
• Practical experience developing and improving applications written in Node.js.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and effective communication skills, especially when collaborating with diverse teams.