Member Technical Staff – Next.js

Responsibilities

• Write production code, review pull requests, debug difficult issues, and contribute directly to Next.js and supporting systems.
• Own complex technical projects from exploration through architecture, implementation, rollout, and production follow-through.
• Set architectural direction across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, runtime behavior, and developer tooling.
• Investigate performance regressions, production failures, and developer pain points, turning findings into framework improvements.
• Establish patterns for code quality, testing, performance, reliability, observability, and incremental delivery.
• Coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, technical feedback, and shared ownership.
• Set expectations, give feedback, support career development, and maintain a high-trust, accountable team.
• Improve planning and decision-making practices, clarify ownership, and help the team ship consistently.
• Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Developer Experience, and engineering teams across Vercel.
• Engage with open-source contributors and balance community needs with product and technical priorities.
• Participate in recruiting, assess technical talent, and help onboard new engineers.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience leading engineers or small technical teams, whether 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, or systems behind a large-scale open source project, including rendering, caching, routing, build tooling, and runtime behavior.
• Ability to take complex technical problems, form a clear point of view, write critical code, and bring other engineers along.
• Experience building products or infrastructure for developers.
• Ability to guide teams toward clean abstractions, consistent framework patterns, and scalable technical decisions.
• Comfort working through ambiguity and solving problems from first principles.
• Ability to balance speed and quality, favor incremental delivery, and recognize when foundational infrastructure requires deeper investment.
• Clear written communication and ability to facilitate productive technical debate and make decisions.
• Use of AI tools in personal workflow and informed opinions about agentic products for developers.

Demonstrates extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on Next.js, React, and framework architecture. Capable of leading technical teams, guiding complex projects from inception to production while ensuring code quality and performance.

• Next.js Development
• React Framework Architecture
• Technical Team Leadership
• Production Code Review
• Performance Optimization

• Software Engineering
• Production Code Writing
• Debugging
• Framework Architecture
• Caching
• Routing
• Build Tooling
• Runtime Behavior
• Incremental Delivery
• Code Quality

• Clear Written Communication
• Technical Feedback
• Coaching
• Facilitating Technical Debate
• Problem Solving

• Technical Projects
• Performance Regressions
• Production Failures
• Developer Experience
• Team Accountability

• AI Tools
• Developer Tooling
• Open-Source Contributions