Vercel

Cloud Infrastructure

SoftwareEngineer,Next.js

$208–312k San Francisco, California, United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Software Engineer, Next.js at Vercel. Skills: React, framework architecture, developer experience, infrastructure, performance, production reliability. work across framework internals. rendering”

What You'll Achieve.

enable the world to ship the best products; ship things

Industry & Context.

Cloud Infrastructure
Problems you'll solve

investigate complex technical problems from first principles; investigate deeply; reason from real evidence

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

React expertise, high independence, good product judgment, ability to investigate complex technical problems from first principles, background in framework development, developer tooling, or product infrastructure, comfortable moving across the stack, working in public, and turning ambiguous problems into clear technical direction, Passion for open source and developer communities, Comfort working across frontend, backend, build tooling, and runtime systems, product sense and care for developer experience, Ability to investigate deeply, debug ambiguous issues, and reason from real evidence, High independence in a distributed team environment, Clear written communication and ownership

Nice to Have

Experience maintaining open source projects, Experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure, Familiarity with Next.js

What You'll Do.

work across framework internals

user-facing product behavior

How You'll Work.

Communication Scope

written communication

Full Job Description

About Vercel: Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web. Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things. About the Role: The Next.js team builds the open source framework that powers millions of applications and shapes how developers build for the web. Our work sits at the intersection of React, framework architecture, developer experience, infrastructure, performance, and production reliability. We are looking for engineers who are excited to work deeply on open source developer infrastructure. You do not need to be a Next.js expert. You do need strong React expertise, high independence, good product judgment, and the ability to investigate complex technical problems from first principles. This role is a strong fit for someone with a background in framework development, developer tooling, or product infrastructure: someone comfortable moving across the stack, working in public, and turning ambiguous problems into clear technical direction. What You Will Do: In this role, you will work across framework internals, rendering, caching, routing, build systems, developer tooling, documentation, platform integration, and user-facing product behavior. The team is highly distributed, so strong written communication, ownership, and self-direction are essential. What We're Looking For: Strong React expertise Passion for open source and developer communities Background in framework development, developer tooling, or product infrastructure Comfort working across frontend, backend, build tooling, and runtime systems Strong product sense and care for developer experie

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