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# Software Engineer, Backend

- **Company:** Vercel Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Active Directory, Amazon Web Services, Cyber Security, Databases, JSON, Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP), Node.Js, NoSQL, OAuth, Role-Based Access Control, Openid Connect, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Single Sign-On, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), ReactJS, Backend, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Restful APIs, Terraform
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_c1de0c37491b06c49b69dd309c02f41e

## About the Role

* 5+ years of relevant engineering experience
 * Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Node.js, with practical experience developing and improving Node.js applications
 * Experience with SQL and web protocols such as REST, SOAP, XML, and JSON
 * Hands-on experience with security architecture and identity protocols such as LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, SSO, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect
 * Worked with access control models such as RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC

## Description

As a Software Engineer, Backend, you'll design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance systems for user, group, and membership management. You'll work in JavaScript and TypeScript, Node.js, SQL and NoSQL cloud-native databases, and AWS. Security and reliability come first, from identity synchronization to the services you run on call. This is a hybrid role with 3 in-office days per week in San Francisco or NYC., * Build and maintain enterprise services in TypeScript, REST APIs, and JSON for user, group, and membership management

 * Implement identity synchronization and lifecycle management using SCIM and related standards
 * Operate services at high scale, including scheduled on-call rotations
 * Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes) to deliver scalable, high-availability applications
 * Work with cross-functional and peer teams to deliver large-scale projects with cross-team dependencies