Staff Backend Engineer
VercelNew York, NYremote$189K–$325KGrowthPosted 23d ago · Aug 22, 2026
Vercel is hiring a staff backend engineer to work on software engineering for frontend cloud for deploying and scaling web applications.
What you would own
- Design, build and operate services that carry production traffic.
- Raise the reliability and latency bar for the systems you own.
- Review designs and mentor engineers across the team.
Skills
GoPostgreSQLReactAWSNext.jsTypeScriptRustgRPCTerraform
What Agraph knows about Vercel
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Employees
640
+12% 90d
Open roles
74
+19% 30d
Remote share
68%
Activity score
66
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Job posting spike
Vercel job postings up 19% in 30 days
Open roles moved from 62 to 74 over the trailing 30 days, with software engineer roles leading the increase.
Open job postings74+19%/ 30 days
A sustained increase at this rate usually precedes headcount growth by one to two quarters.
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