V
$230,000 – $340,000
Listed on Vercel’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead a small team building Next.js while remaining deeply engaged in hands-on engineering, making architectural decisions across rendering, caching, and build systems. This role suits experienced engineers who want to advance into technical leadership without stepping back from code.
Our summary, not Vercel’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
Log in to see which of these are already on your profile.
What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Led engineers or technical teams previously
- Recent hands-on production code experience
- Strong technical judgment in React and framework architecture
- Ability to take complex technical problems and lead implementation
- Experience building developer-facing products or infrastructure
Nice to have
- Open source project maintenance or contribution experience
- Experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, or rendering systems
- Led a small senior engineering team while making substantial individual contributions
- Formed technical direction from zero to one
- Familiarity with Next.js codebase
- Use AI tools regularly in workflow