Software Engineer, Next.js

Vercel; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Flexible Time Off

Mentorship and networking opportunities

Work from home budget

Job summary

Vercel is seeking engineers to join the Next.js team in San Francisco, CA. You will work on open source developer infrastructure, focusing on framework internals and tooling while collaborating in a highly distributed team. The ideal candidate possesses strong React skills, is passionate about developer experience, and enjoys debugging complex problems. A competitive compensation package, including equity and flexible time off, is offered.

Qualifications

• Strong React expertise is essential.
• Ability to work comfortably across the stack.
• High independence in a distributed environment.

Responsibilities

• Work on framework internals, rendering, caching, routing, and build systems.
• Ensure clear technical direction and ownership within the team.
• Engage in debugging and resolving complex technical issues.

Skills

Open source enthusiasm

Background in framework development

Strong product sense

Ability to debug ambiguous issues

Clear written communication

Job description

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:

• 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 experience
• Ability to investigate deeply, debug ambiguous issues, and reason from real evidence
• High independence in a distributed team environment
• Clear written communication and strong ownership

Bonus If You:

• Have experience maintaining open source projects
• Have experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure
• Familiarity with Next.js, though this is not required
• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• 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 $208,000 - $312,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.