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As a Software Engineer on the Next.js team, you’ll work on the core of the framework, collaborating directly with the open-source community and delivering features to a global audience of developers. The team is responsible for advancing Next.js and its ecosystem, so developers can build faster, more scalable applications. You’ll work on server rendering, routing, bundling, performance optimization, and integrating emerging web standards. Your job is to keep the framework intuitive and stable as it evolves. This is a hybrid role with 3 in-office days per week in San Francisco or New York City.
What you'll do:- Design and implement core features in Next.js, from RFC to release
- Work with Vercel’s platform and runtime teams to build integrations between the framework and infrastructure
- Work with the open-source community through issues, PRs, RFCs, and discussions
- Optimize performance across the full stack, from server to browser to edge, and track emerging web standards such as React Server Components, Partial Prerendering, and Web Streams
- Build developer tooling, docs, and examples that help others succeed with Next.js
- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience
- Built production web applications or frameworks with JavaScript, TypeScript, and React
- Hands-on experience with web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, HTTP, rendering models, and caching
- Hands-on experience with build tools such as Webpack, Turbopack, Babel, or SWC
- Communicated clearly and collaborated in public, open-source settings
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package.
- Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
- Flexible Time Off.
- We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.
The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $196,000-$294,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location, and the total package includes benefits and equity-based compensation. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
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Skills Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience leading engineers or small technical teams
- Recent experience writing, reviewing, and shipping production code
- Strong technical judgment across React, framework architecture, or systems behind a large-scale open source project
- Experience with rendering, caching, routing, build tooling, and runtime behavior
- Ability to solve complex technical problems, write critical code, and lead other engineers
- Experience building products or infrastructure for developers
- Understanding of quality, performance, stability, and usability standards for developer audiences
- Systems thinking and ability to guide clean abstractions and scalable technical decisions
- Ability to work through ambiguity and solve problems from first principles
- Clear written communication and ability to facilitate technical debate and make decisions
- Use of AI tools in personal workflow and informed opinions about agentic developer products
- Experience maintaining or contributing to a major open source project, particularly in the React or Next.js ecosystem
- Experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure
- Experience leading a small, senior engineering team while making substantial individual contributions
- Experience forming a team or technical direction from zero to one
- Familiarity with the Next.js codebase
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What We Do
From solo developers building their first app to large enterprise teams if it needs to be fast, reliable, and beautifully built, it runs on Vercel. Our platform powers millions of deployments a day. We started with a simple belief: the web should be fast for everyone, everywhere. That belief became Next.js. Then a platform. Then the infrastructure layer for the AI-native web. We are backed by the amazing team at Accel and CRV, and we're headquartered in San Francisco.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Vercel is a remote-friendly company. Some roles are in-office (SF, NYC and others), and some are fully remote. For the right candidate, flexible arrangements are available, supported by home office and wellness stipends.
