Vercel
Forward-Deployed Engineer
Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City, Austin · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$25k-$40kDetected 1 day ago
TypeScriptReactNext.jsVue.jswebpackLLMsSEOLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- We are looking for a Forward-Deployed Engineer to join our Professional Services team.
- You'll work hands-on-keyboard alongside customer teams, whether you're migrating a legacy React application to App Router, conducting a deep-dive code audit, or deploying production agents using Vercel's AI SDK.
- You will be equally comfortable leading a technical discovery session with engineering leadership as you are refactoring a complex rendering strategy or optimizing an agentic workflow.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex frontend migrations -modernizing legacy React, Vue, or other frameworks to Next.js, including Pages to App Router transitions, incremental adoption strategies, and large-scale codebase transformations.
- Conduct technical assessments and code audits, analyzing customer codebases for performance bottlenecks, architectural anti-patterns, and optimization opportunities-delivering actionable roadmaps that drive measurable improvements.
- Architect and implement high-performance Next.js applications, leveraging App Router, Server Components, streaming, ISR, edge functions, and advanced rendering strategies to meet enterprise scale and performance requirements.
- Optimize Core Web Vitals and application performance, using tools like Vercel Speed Insights to diagnose issues and implement fixes that improve SEO, conversion rates, and user experience.
- Build production AI solutions using Vercel's AI SDK and AI Cloud-including conversational interfaces, production agents, MCP servers, and agentic workflows that transform customer operations.
- Drive enablement and knowledge transfer through workshops, pair programming, and documentation-ensuring customer teams can extend and maintain solutions independently.
- Navigate complex enterprise environments by building relationships with stakeholders across engineering, product, and executive teams-translating technical capabilities into business outcomes.
- Contribute to our service evolution by identifying repeatable patterns, building reusable components, and sharing implementation insights back to Product and Engineering teams.
- Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
- Have led large-scale migrations from legacy frameworks (Create React App, Gatsby, custom webpack setups) to Next.js in enterprise environments.
Requirements
- Have experience with enterprise deployment patterns including security reviews, compliance requirements, and multi-region architectures.
Nice to have
- Have expertise in performance optimization and Core Web Vitals, with experience diagnosing and fixing LCP, CLS, and INP issues at scale.
- Have experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), building MCP servers, or implementing complex tool-use patterns in production AI applications.
- Have worked with micro-frontends, module federation, or multi-team frontend architectures.
- Have spoken at conferences or published thought leadership on frontend architecture, migrations, or AI applications.
- 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.
- Mastery of React and its ecosystem, including advanced state management, performance optimization, and modern patterns like streaming, suspense, and concurrent features.
Compensation
- The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $137,000.00 - $207,000.00.
- This salary range is an estimate.
Benefits
- Great compensation package and stock options.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package.
- Flexible Time Off - Flexible vacation policy with a recommended 4-weeks per year, and paid holidays.
- The total compensation package also includes benefits and equity-based compensation.
- Have a background in financial services, healthcare, retail/e-commerce, or media-industries with complex frontend ecosystems and growing AI adoption.
Company info
- Embed with strategic customers to build production applications-working within their systems, understanding their constraints, and shipping TypeScript code that goes live.
Visa & Work Authorization
- discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic pro
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