Senior Software Engineer, OAuth & Connect APIs

HostList; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

Mentorship

Flexible time off

WFH budget

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Connect team in San Francisco. You will own APIs, token infrastructure, and authentication workflows, building scalable backend and frontend components that empower developers to connect with external systems.

You will collaborate across teams, mentor others, and advance secure, high-performance identity and authorization features in a rapidly evolving AI-enabled platform.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating production backend or full-stack systems.
• Deep understanding of OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, and JWTs beyond wiring a client library.

Responsibilities

• Own APIs, token infrastructure, authorization, and SDKs end to end.
• Ship provider integrations end to end, including auth flows and registration UI.
• Improve infrastructure for uptime, performance, and secure credential storage.
• Work with external partners to simplify integrations and expand connect capabilities.
• Collaborate with teams to extend SDKs and framework adapters.

Skills

TypeScript

OAuth 2.0

API design

Backend systems

Tools

Next.js

OAuth server

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Senior Engineer for the Connect team in San Francisco. You will own APIs, token infrastructure, and authentication workflows, building scalable backend and frontend components that empower developers to connect with external systems.

You will collaborate across teams, mentor others, and advance secure, high-performance identity and authorization features in a rapidly evolving AI-enabled platform.