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As an Engineering Manager on the Next.js team, you’ll help build and lead the team behind the open source framework that powers millions of applications. This is a hands-on player/coach role: you’ll be an engineer first and a manager second, spending most of your time on technical leadership and engineering execution. You’ll guide the evolution of Next.js across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, and developer tooling, working with Product, Design, and engineers across Vercel. This is a hybrid role with 3 in-office days per week in San Francisco or New York City.
What you'll do:- Write production code, review pull requests, and debug difficult production issues and performance regressions, contributing directly to the framework and its supporting systems
- Lead major technical initiatives from exploration through architecture, implementation, rollout, and production follow-through
- Set technical direction across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, runtime behavior, and developer tooling, and raise the bar for code quality, testing, performance, and reliability
- Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews, set clear expectations, support career development, and take part in hiring
- Work in public with open-source contributors and partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Developer Experience teams, so framework changes integrate cleanly with the Vercel platform
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Led engineers or small technical teams as a team lead, tech lead, staff engineer, engineering manager, or founder
- Recent experience writing, reviewing, and shipping production code
- Technical depth in React, framework architecture, or the systems behind a large-scale open source project, including rendering, caching, routing, build tooling, and runtime behavior
- Built products or infrastructure for developers
- Use AI tools in your own engineering workflow
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Inclusive healthcare package.
- Learning and growth support, including mentorship and opportunities to attend events that build your network and skills.
- Flexible time off.
- The equipment you need to do your role, plus a work-from-home budget to outfit your space.
The 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.
The 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.
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Skills Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience leading engineers or small technical teams (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, rendering, caching, routing, build tooling, and runtime behavior
- Ability to take complex technical problems from exploration through architecture, implementation, rollout, and production follow-through
- Experience building products or infrastructure for developers with high standards for quality, performance, stability, and usability
- Coaching and mentoring engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, and technical feedback
- Clear written communication and ability to facilitate productive technical debate and make decisions
- Comfort working through ambiguity and solving problems from first principles
- Use AI tools in your workflow and have informed opinions about agentic products for developers
- Experience maintaining or contributing to a major open source project, especially in React/Next.js ecosystem
- Experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure
- Experience forming a team or technical direction from zero to one
- Familiarity with the Next.js codebase
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
From solo developers building their first app to large enterprise teams if it needs to be fast, reliable, and beautifully built, it runs on Vercel. Our platform powers millions of deployments a day. We started with a simple belief: the web should be fast for everyone, everywhere. That belief became Next.js. Then a platform. Then the infrastructure layer for the AI-native web. We are backed by the amazing team at Accel and CRV, and we're headquartered in San Francisco.
Vercel Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Vercel is a remote-friendly company. Some roles are in-office (SF, NYC and others), and some are fully remote. For the right candidate, flexible arrangements are available, supported by home office and wellness stipends.
