Vercel
Engineering Manager - Next.js
$230K–$340K
Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience; leadership experience as a team lead, tech lead, staff engineer, engineering manager, founder, or similar.
About the job
Leads a small team while contributing hands-on to Next.js framework development, technical direction, and engineering execution.
What you'll do
- Write and review production code, debug complex issues, and lead technical initiatives from exploration through rollout.
- Set architecture and engineering standards across framework systems, including performance, reliability, testing, and developer tooling.
- Coach engineers, support focused people leadership, and coordinate execution with cross-functional teams and open-source contributors.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience and continued effectiveness as a hands-on engineer.
- Experience leading engineers or small technical teams.
- Recent experience writing, reviewing, and shipping production code.
- Strong technical judgment in React, framework architecture, or systems behind a large-scale open-source project.
Nice to have
- Experience maintaining or contributing to a major open-source project, particularly in the React or Next.js ecosystem.
- Experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure.
Pay
$230,000 to $340,000 USD base salary
Tools
Next.js, React
AI focus
Use AI tools in personal workflow and bring informed opinions about how agentic products should work for developers.
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