Senior Next.js + Payload CMS Developer — German Real-Estate Portal Rebuild (Project-Based)

We are a German digital-infrastructure agency. We are hiring a senior developer for a
project-based rebuild of an established German real-estate portal (site ranks #1 on Google —
SEO migration and redirects are handled by our team; you build the new frontend + CMS).

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build 8 page templates in Next.js (App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind), fully responsive
• Implement Payload CMS inside the Next.js app (collections are pre-modeled by us)
• Render ~700 programmatic reference pages from CMS data (we deliver the data)
• Integrate one external JS search widget (snippet provided)
• Build 2 forms (multi-step + standard) with server validation, e-mail delivery and

hidden-field source attribution

• Technical SEO baseline: meta templates, sitemap.xml, structured data, clean semantic HTML

WE PROVIDE
Running Next.js + Payload scaffold in our GitHub repo, Postgres database, Vercel with preview
deployments, design assets, a complete written spec, and fast decisions (feedback within 24 h).

HOW WE WORK
Pull requests only, code review by us, weekly 30-min status call. Our team works in Bangkok
time (UTC+7) — just 1 hour behind PH time, so communication happens in YOUR working hours,
no night shifts. Acceptance is measurable: Lighthouse mobile ? 90 performance / ? 95 SEO on
three template types, Core Web Vitals budgets, CMS demo.

TIMELINE (FIXED)
Kickoff July 21 · design direction frozen July 28 · feature-complete on preview August 8 ·
acceptance/bugfixing until August 15. Full-time focus during this window required.
Good performance leads to follow-up projects (city pages rollout + more client projects).

TO APPLY — answer these 4 questions (applications without all 4 answers will be skipped):
1. Link to ONE live Next.js App-Router project you built — what exactly did you build yourself?
2. Link/repo of ONE Payload CMS project (v2 or v3) — which collections did you model?
3. Confirm full availability July 21 – August 15 (hours/week you commit).
4. Your fixed project price in USD, itemized per work package (templates, CMS, widget, forms,
SEO baseline, QA).

Start your application with the word "LIGHTHOUSE" so we know you read this.
English communication required. NDA before we share client details. No subcontracting.