Manager of the Technical Staff - Next.js

Location: New York City or San Francisco, United States

Salary: $230,000–$340,000 annual base pay in San Francisco; compensation outside San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location.

Company

Vercel builds agentic infrastructure and developer products including Next.js, v0, and AI SDK.

What you will do

• Write production code, review pull requests, debug complex issues, and contribute directly to Next.js and its supporting systems.
• Lead technical initiatives from exploration and architecture through implementation, rollout, and production follow-through.
• Set technical direction across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, runtime behavior, and developer tooling.
• Improve performance, reliability, observability, testing, code quality, and incremental delivery practices.
• Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, technical feedback, and focused people leadership.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Developer Experience, and open source contributors while helping recruit and onboard engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with continued effectiveness as a hands-on engineer.
• Experience leading 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.
• Strong technical judgment across React, framework architecture, rendering, caching, routing, build tooling, and runtime behavior.
• Experience building products or infrastructure for developers, with strong communication and technical decision-making skills.
• Experience using AI tools in an engineering workflow and informed opinions about agentic products for developers.

Nice to have

• Experience maintaining or contributing to a major open source project, especially in the React or Next.js ecosystem.
• Experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure.
• Experience leading a small senior engineering team while making substantial individual contributions.
• Familiarity with the Next.js codebase or experience establishing a team or technical direction from zero to one.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with equity and potential bonus or variable pay eligibility.
• Inclusive healthcare package and flexible time off.
• Learning, mentorship, and professional development support, including event attendance opportunities.
• Required equipment and a work-from-home budget.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and community empowerment.