Overview
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are senior Nextbrick engineers who work shoulder-to-shoulder with your team, inside your environment, on your highest-priority problems. Instead of handing over a document and walking away, our FDEs sit with your stakeholders, learn your systems and constraints, and write production code that moves the needle from week one.
This model is built for organizations that need momentum: teams modernizing legacy platforms, launching AI and search initiatives, or working through a backlog that internal staffing alone can't clear fast enough.
How We Work
Our Forward Deployed Engineers operate as part of your team for the duration of an engagement. A typical engagement begins with a short discovery period to map your architecture, data, and goals, followed by rapid, iterative delivery against clearly defined outcomes.
- Embedded delivery — FDEs join your standups, planning, and code reviews, and commit directly to your repositories.
- Outcome-driven — every engagement is scoped around measurable results, not hours billed.
- Knowledge transfer — we document decisions, pair with your engineers, and leave your team stronger than we found it.
- Full-stack range — from AI agents, RAG, and search to data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and application development.
When to Use Forward Deployed Engineers
Forward Deployed Engineers are the right fit when you need to accelerate a critical initiative, de-risk a complex build, or bring specialized expertise into your team without the lead time of hiring. Common scenarios include standing up a new AI or search capability, rescuing a stalled platform migration, or augmenting an internal team during a high-pressure delivery window.
Why Nextbrick
Nextbrick's engineers bring production experience across AI, search, data engineering, commerce, content, and cloud. Because we deliver inside your environment and against your goals, you get the speed of a specialist partner with the alignment of an in-house team.