Software Engineer, Financial Infrastructure

About Vercel:

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, Chick-fil-A, 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 financial infrastructure team at Vercel builds the critical billing systems and delightful user experiences that power pricing, subscriptions, and revenue operations across all Vercel products.

We're seeking engineers to join a team that's central to Vercel's business strategy and growth. In this role, you'll architect and develop scalable usage-based billing platforms, spend management systems, entitlements, and usage forecasting that directly enable our company's expansion. You'll collaborate with engineering teams across the entire stack—from v0 to Infrastructure—to build a platform that every team at Vercel depends on.

This is your opportunity to reimagine billing experiences for both enterprise clients and millions of individual developers, working on systems that process significant transaction volumes. Your code will handle mission-critical financial operations that keep our business running and build trust with our customers

What you will do:

• Architect and build the next generation of billing and monetization systems that reaches millions of users.
• Develop robust and scalable billing APIs and services, commercializing all Vercel products and offerings.
• Develop tools that empower internal teams to seamlessly incorporate billing workflows.
• Continuously optimize systems' performance and reliability to ensure a frictionless user experience.
• Collaborate closely with a wide array of stakeholders, including the Product, Data, Finance, and Go-To-Market teams, as well as engineers across several teams.

About You:

• Possess at least 6+ years of experience in full-stack development with added experience in critical systems like payments, billing, or monetization.
• Skilled in server-side languages such as Node.js, Python, or Go, with a proven track record of implementing complex business logic.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization technologies like AWS and Docker
• Demonstrate a passion for delivering high-quality code, with particular emphasis on accuracy, security, and scalability.
• Exhibit excellent problem-solving abilities and effective communication skills, especially when collaborating with diverse teams.
• Enjoy engaging with various partners, particularly those outside of engineering

Benefits:

• 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 and New York, NY base pay range for this role is $196,000-$294,000.  This salary range is an estimate. Actual salary will be based on job related skills, experience and location. Pay ranges outside San Francisco may be  adjusted based on employee location.  The total compensation package also includes benefits and equity-based compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location 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