Forward-Deployed Engineer

Vercel
Berlin
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: OtherExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["TypeScript","React","Next.js","App Router","Server Components","SSR","SSR/ISR","Edge functions","AI SDK","AI","MCP","TypeScript tooling"]

Embed with enterprise customers as a Forward-Deployed Engineer to lead Next.js migrations, architect high-performance apps, and build production AI solutions within client environments, driving measurable business value and long-term partnerships while embedding with engineering, product, and executive teams.

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Vercel
Vercel
7 months ago

Forward-Deployed Engineer

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Job Summary

Embed with enterprise customers as a Forward-Deployed Engineer to lead Next.js migrations, architect high-performance apps, and build production AI solutions within client environments, driving measurable business value and long-term partnerships while embedding with engineering, product, and executive teams.
Location: Berlin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead complex frontend migrations—modernizing legacy React, Vue, or other frameworks to Next.js, including Pages to App Router transitions and large-scale codebase transformations.
  • •Conduct technical assessments and code audits, analyzing customer codebases for performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities to deliver actionable roadmaps.
  • •Architect and implement high-performance Next.js applications using App Router, Server Components, streaming, ISR, and edge functions to meet enterprise scale.
  • •Optimize Core Web Vitals and application performance with tools like Vercel Speed Insights to improve SEO and user experience.
  • •Build production AI solutions using Vercel's AI SDK and AI Cloud, including conversational interfaces and production agents, within customer environments.
Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityHealth InsuranceRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 2 years in a customer-facing technical role (consulting, solutions engineering, forward deployed engineering, or technical founder experience).
  • •Expert-level TypeScript skills—this is your primary language. You write production TypeScript daily and have strong opinions on type safety, patterns, and tooling.
  • •Deep expertise in Next.js, with a proven track record of architecting and delivering complex applications using App Router, Server Components, SSR, SSG, ISR, and edge functions.
  • •Demonstrated experience leading frontend migrations—modernizing legacy applications to Next.js, navigating incremental adoption strategies, and understanding the challenges of migrating large codebases in production environments.
  • •Mastery of React and its ecosystem, including advanced state management, performance optimization, and patterns like streaming, suspense, and concurrent features.
Experience:5+ years
Skills:TypeScriptReactNext.jsApp RouterServer ComponentsSSRSSR/ISREdge functionsAI SDKAIMCPTypeScript tooling
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TypeScriptNext.jsReactApp RouterServer ComponentsSSRSSGISREdge functionsAI SDKAIMCP

Company Brief

Vercel
Provides a frontend cloud platform and developer tools (including Next.js and v0) that simplify building, deploying, and scaling web and AI-native applications for developers and enterprises.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series F
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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