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For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.\nNow we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.\nAbout the Role\nThe Next.js team builds the open source framework that powers millions of applications and shapes how developers build for the web. Our work sits at the intersection of React, framework architecture, developer experience, infrastructure, performance, and production reliability.\nWe are looking for 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.\nYou will be an engineer first and a manager second. You will contribute directly to the framework, lead major technical initiatives, review code, debug complex production issues, and help make architectural decisions. You will also support the engineers around you through clear direction, thoughtful feedback, and practical coaching.\nThis is not a traditional people management role. You will spend the majority of your time on technical leadership and engineering execution. You should be comfortable owning difficult parts of the codebase while creating enough context and clarity for others to move quickly.\nYou will work closely with Product, Design, and engineers across Vercel to guide the evolution of Next.js across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, and developer tooling.\nWhat You Will Do\nBuild and ship Next.js: Write production code, review pull requests, debug difficult issues, and contribute directly to the framework and its supporting systems.\nLead major technical initiatives: Take ownership of complex projects from initial exploration through architecture, implementation, rollout, and production follow-through.\nSet technical direction: Make sound architectural decisions across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, runtime behavior, and developer tooling.\nStay close to real problems: Investigate performance regressions, production failures, and developer pain points. Turn what you learn into practical improvements to the framework.\nRaise the engineering bar: Establish strong patterns for code quality, testing, performance, reliability, observability, and incremental delivery.\nCoach through the work: Help engineers grow through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, technical feedback, and shared ownership of challenging problems.\nProvide focused people leadership: Set clear expectations, give candid feedback, support career development, and help maintain a high-trust and accountable team.\nImprove team execution: Create lightweight planning and decision-making practices that clarify ownership, reduce unnecessary coordination, and help the team ship consistently.\nPartner across Vercel: Work with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Developer Experience, and other engineering teams so framework changes integrate cleanly across the Vercel platform.\nChampion open source: Work in public, engage thoughtfully with contributors, and balance community needs with the team’s product and technical priorities.\nHelp grow the team: Participate in recruiting, assess technical talent, and help new engineers become productive in a complex codebase.\nAbout You\nYou have 8+ years of software engineering experience and remain highly effective as a hands-on engineer.\nYou have led engineers or small technical teams, whether as a team lead, tech lead, staff engineer, engineering manager, or founder.\nYou have recent experience writing, reviewing, and shipping production code. You are not looking to step away from engineering execution.\nYou have strong technical judgment across React, framework architecture, or the systems behind a large-scale open source project, including rendering, caching, routing, build tooling, and runtime behavior.\nYou can take a complex technical problem, form a clear point of view, write the critical code, and bring other engineers along with you.\nYou know when to lead from the front and when to create space for someone else to take ownership.\nYou have experience building products or infrastructure for developers and understand the quality, performance, stability, and usability standards this audience expects.\nYou think in systems and can guide a team toward clean abstractions, consistent framework patterns, and technical decisions that hold up at scale.\nYou are comfortable working through ambiguity and solving problems from first principles.\nYou balance speed and quality. You favor incremental delivery and real-world feedback while recognizing when foundational infrastructure requires deeper investment.\nYou communicate clearly in writing, facilitate productive technical debate, and make decisions when a path forward is needed.\nYou use AI tools in your own workflow and have informed opinions about how agentic products should work for developers.\nBonus\nExperience maintaining or contributing to a major open source project, particularly in the React or Next.js ecosystem.\nExperience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure.\nExperience leading a small, senior engineering team while continuing to make substantial individual contributions.\nExperience forming a team or technical direction from zero to one.\nFamiliarity with the Next.js codebase, though this is not required.\nBenefits\nCompetitive compensation package, including equity.\nInclusive healthcare package.\nLearning and growth support, including mentorship and opportunities to attend events that build your network and skills.\nFlexible time off.\nThe equipment you need to do your role, plus a work-from-home budget to outfit your space.\nCompensation\nThe San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $230,000 to $340,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location.\nThe total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program, depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.\nEqual Opportunity\nVercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. 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