Senior Staff Engineer, Next.js Platform & Framework Architecture

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

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

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.