Member of the Technical Staff – Next.js

Jobtailor

California (MO)

On-site

USD 190,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead Next.js and React-powered projects, guiding architecture, performance, and developer experience. You will own complex technical initiatives from concept through production, mentoring engineers and setting standards.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Product, Design, and Infrastructure, and requires a track record of shipping production code, influencing framework decisions, and balancing speed with quality.

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience.
Experience leading engineers or small technical teams.
Recent experience writing and shipping production code.
Strong judgment across React, framework architecture, or systems behind a large-scale open source project.
Ability to guide teams toward clean abstractions and scalable technical decisions.
Clear written communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

Write production code, review PRs, debug difficult issues, and contribute to Next.js and related systems.
Own complex technical projects from exploration to architecture, implementation, rollout, and production follow-through.
Set architectural direction across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, runtime behavior, and developer tooling.
Investigate performance regressions, production failures, and developer pain points, driving improvements.
Establish patterns for code quality, testing, performance, reliability, observability, and incremental delivery.
Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, technical feedback, and shared ownership.

Skills

Next.js Development

React Framework Architecture

Technical Team Leadership

Production Code Review

Performance Optimization

Tools

Open-Source Contributions

AI Tools in Dev

Developer Tooling

Job description

Responsibilities

Write production code, review pull requests, debug difficult issues, and contribute directly to Next.js and supporting systems.
Own complex technical projects from exploration through architecture, implementation, rollout, and production follow-through.
Set architectural direction across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, runtime behavior, and developer tooling.
Investigate performance regressions, production failures, and developer pain points, turning findings into framework improvements.
Establish patterns for code quality, testing, performance, reliability, observability, and incremental delivery.
Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, technical feedback, and shared ownership.
Set expectations, give feedback, support career development, and maintain a high-trust, accountable team.
Improve planning and decision-making practices, clarify ownership, and help the team ship consistently.
Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Developer Experience, and engineering teams across Vercel.
Engage with open-source contributors and balance community needs with product and technical priorities.
Participate in recruiting, assess technical talent, and help onboard new engineers.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience.
Experience leading engineers or small technical teams, whether as a team lead, tech lead, staff engineer, engineering manager, or founder.
Recent experience writing, reviewing, and shipping production code.
Strong technical judgment across React, framework architecture, or systems behind a large-scale open source project, including rendering, caching, routing, build tooling, and runtime behavior.
Ability to take complex technical problems, form a clear point of view, write critical code, and bring other engineers along.
Experience building products or infrastructure for developers.
Ability to guide teams toward clean abstractions, consistent framework patterns, and scalable technical decisions.
Comfort working through ambiguity and solving problems from first principles.
Ability to balance speed and quality, favor incremental delivery, and recognize when foundational infrastructure requires deeper investment.
Clear written communication and ability to facilitate productive technical debate and make decisions.
Use of AI tools in personal workflow and informed opinions about agentic products for developers.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on Next.js, React, and framework architecture. Capable of leading technical teams, guiding complex projects from inception to production while ensuring code quality and performance.

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