Next.js Engineering Lead — Hands-on Senior Engineer

Triwill Group; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Healthcare

Learning & growth

Flexible time off

Home office budget

Job summary

Vercel is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to help build and lead a team working on Next.js. This is a hands-on player/coach role for an experienced engineer who wants to remain close to the code while helping a small team do its best work.

You will be an engineer first and a manager second, contributing to the framework and guiding major technical initiatives. The SF base pay range is $230,000 to $340,000, with equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Led engineers or small technical teams.
• Recent experience writing, reviewing, and shipping production code.
• Strong technical judgment across React, framework architecture, or large-scale open source projects.
• Clear written communication and ability to guide with practical coaching.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship Next.js: production code, PR reviews, debugging issues.
• Lead major technical initiatives from exploration to rollout.
• Set technical direction across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, tooling.
• Stay close to real problems by investigating performance regressions and production issues.
• Coach engineers through pairing, code reviews, and feedback.
• Provide focused people leadership and help manage career development.
• Improve team execution with lightweight planning and decision-making practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and other teams to integrate framework changes.

Skills

8+ years of software engineering

team leadership

hands-on engineering

React/framework knowledge

open source

communication

AI tools in workflow

Job description

Vercel is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to help build and lead a team working on Next.js. This is a hands-on player/coach role for an experienced engineer who wants to remain close to the code while helping a small team do its best work.

You will be an engineer first and a manager second, contributing to the framework and guiding major technical initiatives. The SF base pay range is $230,000 to $340,000, with equity and a comprehensive benefits package.