For pages that have to be fast before a single line of React runs
Hire Next.js Developers
Next.js gives a team enough rendering options to make a genuinely wrong choice for any given page, and the wrong choice usually surfaces as a speed or staleness complaint months later. These engineers are tested on making that choice correctly, then placed inside the routes your product actually depends on.
- Profiles typically within two business days
- Replacement Assurance: If an engineer is not the right fit, a replacement from our own team starts within ten business days of your request, at no extra cost
- You interview before placement if you want to
- At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast
- 14-Day Risk-Free Trial: For your first engineer on a time-and-materials engagement. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop
How we evaluate a Next.js engineer
The tasks, the signals and the onboarding, walked through by the people who run them.
90 secSample frame · video pending01Published, not promised
The assessment behind every engineer we send.
The Next.js bar is published, not assumed: five competencies, the exact task behind each, and the shortcut that ends a candidacy. Most interviews ask about the App Router's syntax. This one asks whether the rendering choice was actually right.
What we listen forWhether they pick SSR, SSG, ISR or client rendering for a defensible reason, not by default.
A product page needs to be fast, mostly static, but shows live stock counts. Walk us through which rendering strategy you would use and why.
- What strong sounds like
- Proposes ISR or a static shell with a targeted fetch for the live piece, naming the tradeoff explicitly.
- What gives us pause
- Defaults to full client-side rendering or full SSR for everything without weighing what actually needs to be live.
Next.js · React · TypeScript
App Router · Server Actions · Edge Runtime
Playwright · Vitest · React Testing Library
Vercel · ESLint · Turbopack
02Who you actually meet
The bench, priced by seniority.
Three seniority tiers, priced honestly, and the engineers who fill each one today. Real names and photos take their place as soon as we can share them, and the standard stays exactly the same.
Engineer
Features scoped tightly enough to ship inside your review bar, every time.
The right first hire when your seniors already set the standard.
$2,600–3,300per month
Senior
The hard module nobody else wants to own, taken end to end.
Ownership of a surface, without adding a manager to your headcount.
$3,600–4,600per month
Lead
The workstream's decisions, made daily, so nothing waits on a meeting.
One accountable voice for a pod or initiative that can't afford to drift.
$4,900–6,100per month
Next.js engineer
3 yrs · US East overlap
Fixed a hydration mismatch three previous engineers had given up diagnosing
- Next.js
- React
- Vitest
Senior Next.js engineer
7 yrs · UK + EU hours
Introduced ISR on a pricing page, cutting load time without losing live data
- Next.js
- App Router
- Server Actions
- Playwright
Lead Next.js engineer
10 yrs · EU + US split
Owns the rendering-strategy decisions across a platform's forty-plus routes
- Next.js
- Edge Runtime
- Architecture
- Vercel
Indicative ranges, representative profiles. Exact figures and named engineers arrive with your shortlist.
Weighing this against a freelancer, a direct hire or a marketplace? See the honest comparison
03From stated problem to first change
Four steps, each closing on evidence.
No black-box shortlisting on routing trivia. Each step below closes with evidence you can hold, and stopping at any point costs you nothing.
Define the performance problem
We map where your rendering strategy or caching is actually costing speed or freshness. The role brief names the performance problem, not a routing checklist.
A brief your leads signMatch against your routes
Candidates are screened against your actual rendering choices, your deployment target and your review culture. Three engineers who read your routes beat thirty who list Next.js on a CV.
Three fits, not thirty CVsAssess on the real tasks
Your team can watch the rendering-strategy and hydration exercises live. You see architectural reasoning, not a rehearsed opinion about the App Router.
Evaluation you can watchOnboard inside your process
Access, standards, and a first bounded change to a real route. Continuity cover means a departure is our problem to schedule around, not your release.
A merged change in week one
04Evidence and proof
Engineers who made fast and fresh the same thing.
Next.js proof is speed that doesn't cost you data freshness, not a Lighthouse score alone. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.
Explore case studies
A product page that got fast without losing its live data.
Vela Ledger's pricing page was either slow and accurate or fast and stale, and the team assumed those were the only two options. An embedded Next.js engineer introduced ISR with a targeted live fetch and got both.
- Time to first byte
- Cut sharply
- Data freshness
- Preserved
He explained why our hydration warnings kept appearing in a way three previous engineers never managed to.
Sample · pending client approval
Our pages got faster and our data got fresher in the same release, which we didn't think was possible.
Sample · pending client approval
05Three shapes, one standard
Add an engineer, a frontend pod, or a practice.
Most teams start with one engineer working inside existing routes and grow from there. Some need a pod that owns the whole rendering layer outright. When shipping the whole product is the real requirement rather than filling a seat, we say that plainly instead.
- Team extension
One named engineer
A single Next.js specialist inside your direction and your reviews. The smallest commitment, and the most common way teams start.
- Delivery pods
A frontend pod
A pod with its own lead that owns rendering strategy and performance across your routes. You set priorities while the pod carries delivery.
- Product engineering
The practice, not the person
When the honest need is a product shipped end to end, not a role filled, product engineering takes that accountability instead.
06Straight answers
Asked before a Next.js hire is signed.
01What does a Next.js engineer actually do day to day?
Chooses rendering strategy per route, manages the server and client component boundary, and tunes caching so pages stay fast without going stale. The unglamorous majority of the work is diagnosing why one route feels slow while an identical-looking one doesn't.
02Do you hire for the App Router or Pages Router specifically?
Matched to your actual codebase. Rendering-strategy judgement transfers across both routers, then the evaluation confirms familiarity with whichever one your product runs.
03Can we run our own interviews as well?
Yes, and the published tasks are built to be reused directly. Several clients now run the hydration-diagnosis exercise themselves in later hiring rounds.
04How fast can a Next.js engineer start?
A shortlist arrives within days from a continuously evaluated bench. From there, start speed mostly depends on how quickly your side grants repository and deployment access.
05Who manages the engineer day to day?
Your leads own the roadmap and the review bar. We take on what an employer normally carries: continuity, payroll, replacement risk and the handoff work in between.
06What if the engineer is not the right fit?
Flag it inside the first weeks and the swap is our cost. The next engineer arrives briefed on exactly what missed, which keeps second matches solid.
07Do your Next.js developers use AI coding tools?
Yes, openly. AI drafts route scaffolding and test suites quickly; the engineer stays accountable for every rendering-strategy decision, cache setting and merge that reaches your product.
08How does pricing work for a hired Next.js engineer?
The tier bands above frame the cost; the shortlist carries the precise figure per engineer. Monthly billing, no fee before an interview, notice-period exit.