Forward-Deployed Engineer: AI & Next.js (Hybrid)

Fdetimes; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Healthcare package

Learning and events

Flexible time off

WFH budget

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work within the Professional Services team, modernizing legacy frontends to Next.js and building production AI agents. You will own work from technical discovery to shipped TypeScript, with two profiles: Next.js expertise and AI builder scope.

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 in-office days per week in London or Berlin. You will lead migrations to Next.js, audit performance, and design scalable enterprise applications using App Router, Server

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience including 2+ years in a customer-facing technical role

Responsibilities

• Build production AI agents and agentic workflows using Vercel Eve framework, AI SDK, and AI Cloud
• Lead migrations from legacy React, Vue, and other frameworks to Next.js (Pages Router to App Router)
• Audit customer codebases for performance bottlenecks and deliver improvement roadmaps
• Architect Next.js applications with App Router, Server Components, streaming and ISR at enterprise scale
• Run workshops and pair programming to enable customer teams to maintain what you ship

Skills

TypeScript

React

Performance auditing

Customer-facing

Web applications

Tools

App Router

Server Components

MCP servers

AI tooling

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work within the Professional Services team, modernizing legacy frontends to Next.js and building production AI agents. You will own work from technical discovery to shipped TypeScript, with two profiles: Next.js expertise and AI builder scope.

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 in-office days per week in London or Berlin. You will lead migrations to Next.js, audit performance, and design scalable enterprise applications using App Router, Server