Vercel is a company that provides developers with tools and cloud infrastructure to create a faster, more personalized web. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join their Next.js team, which focuses on building the open source framework that powers millions of applications and enhances developer experience.
Responsibilities:
- Work across framework internals, rendering, caching, routing, build systems, developer tooling, documentation, platform integration, and user-facing product behavior
Requirements:
- 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 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
- 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