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$230,000 – $340,000
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What this role is
Lead a small team building and shipping Next.js while remaining deeply technical, contributing directly to the framework and driving major initiatives across rendering, caching, and developer tooling. This role suits an experienced engineer who wants to stay close to the code while coaching others and shaping technical direction at scale.
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years software engineering experience
- Recent hands-on production code writing and shipping
- Leadership experience with engineers or small technical teams
- Strong technical judgment in React, framework architecture, or large-scale open source systems
- Ability to take complex problems, form clear technical direction, and implement critical code
- Experience building products or infrastructure for developer audiences
- Systems thinking and guidance toward clean abstractions
Nice to have
- Maintaining or contributing to a major open source project in React or Next.js ecosystem
- Experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure
- Leading a small senior engineering team while making substantial individual contributions
- Forming team or technical direction from zero to one
- Familiarity with Next.js codebase
- Experience using AI tools in your workflow