Next.js Engineering Team Lead — Hands-on & Architecture

Webhosting; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Vercel in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to build and guide the Next.js team. You will be an engineer first, leader second, writing production code, reviewing PRs, and shaping framework decisions.

You'll partner with Product, Design, and other engineers to drive performance, reliability, and developer experience while growing the team. This is a hands-on role focused on architecture, mentoring, and recruiting, with opportunities to influence core framework development and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading engineering teams.
• Strong expertise in Next.js and React.
• Proven ability to set technical direction and architecture.
• Hands-on coding, debugging production issues, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead major technical initiatives and coach engineers.
• Review code, debug production issues, and shape architecture.
• Define rendering, caching, routing, and tooling decisions for Next.js.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Platform teams to ship reliably.

Skills

Next.js

React

Open source

Leadership

Code review

Issue debugging

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Performance profiling

Job description

Vercel in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to build and guide the Next.js team. You will be an engineer first, leader second, writing production code, reviewing PRs, and shaping framework decisions.

You'll partner with Product, Design, and other engineers to drive performance, reliability, and developer experience while growing the team. This is a hands-on role focused on architecture, mentoring, and recruiting, with opportunities to influence core framework development and