Software Engineer, Dashboard

The Dashboard is where the self-driving aspect of Vercel's Cloud comes to life. Today, it's a project listing page. We're turning it into a personalized, agent-powered surface that proactively helps users ship and stay on best practices. This is a foundational role: you'll be one of the first engineers on a new team, working alongside our current tech lead to rearchitect and rebuild the Dashboard from the ground up.

You'll work across the stack: building fast, polished UI on the frontend and the APIs, data layers, and services that power personalization, agent experiences, and real-time push surfaces on the backend. The Dashboard must be the reference implementation of Vercel's own platform.

What You Will Do

• Build and own core Dashboard infrastructure: the shell, navigation, layout system, and shared components that every product area builds within
• Architect and implement the backend services and APIs that power the Dashboard, including personalization, notifications, and agent-powered experiences
• Drive performance as a core feature. Profile, measure, and optimize aggressively. Every interaction should feel instant
• Build agent-facing surfaces: the UI and API layers where agents surface errors, suggest fixes, update config, and keep users on best practices
• Work closely with product area teams (Billing, CI/CD, Observability, etc.) to ensure their pages integrate cleanly into the Dashboard shell and follow shared patterns
• Ship incrementally and continuously. This is a living product that improves every week

About You

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer building user-facing products. You're strong across the stack: modern frontend (React, TypeScript, Next.js) and backend (APIs, databases, services)
• You've built products for developers or technical users. You understand the expectations of this audience and you hold yourself to the same bar
• You think in systems. You naturally build reusable abstractions, composable components, and clean APIs rather than one-off solutions
• You're comfortable with ambiguity. This is a new team building a new product direction. You can take a rough problem statement and turn it into shipped code
• You use AI tools in your own development workflow and have opinions on how they should work
• You ship fast without sacrificing quality. You bias toward iteration and production feedback over long planning cycles
• You communicate clearly and collaborate well with Product, Design, and other engineering teams

Bonus

• Experience working on platform or horizontal teams where you built shared infrastructure that other teams depended on
• Contributions to open source projects, especially in the React or Next.js ecosystem

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. 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.

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