Technical Web Lead

About Us

• At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure. Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry. We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models. Fireworks is a Series C company valued at $4 billion and backed by top investors including Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Index
• Evantic. We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI.
• About the Role
• This is a founding role. You will be the first engineering hire on the marketing team at Fireworks AI: the person who owns the web platform end-to-end
• who brings the technical credibility to everything marketing builds online.
• The immediate priority is a significant web refresh. We already have an established platform: a Next.js monorepo (Turborepo + Yarn workspaces) with Sanity as our content source of truth, deployed on Vercel with ISR. The goal is to improve, scale
• mature that platform rather than rebuild it. You will work alongside a strong agency partner who brings deep technical and strategic expertise — rather than being heads-down in execution, your focus will be on technical leadership, platform direction
• ensuring the work meets a high bar.
• This is a senior IC role. You will be embedded with the marketing team, partnering closely with Marketing Operations, Digital
• working cross-functionally with product and engineering. You are directly accountable for the quality and performance of our web presence as the company scales at pace.
• What You’ll Do
• Own the architecture and health of the Fireworks marketing web platform: a Next.js 15 monorepo with shared component libraries, Sanity Studio, and Vercel hosting.
• Evolve and scale the existing Sanity content architecture, improving content modelling, GROQ queries, and dataset structure to give marketing, digital, and growth teams greater independence.
• Lead the technical execution of the web refresh, setting direction, defining milestones, and keeping the project on track without a dedicated PM.
• Work alongside the agency partner on technical strategy and delivery, reviewing output, translating briefs, and holding work to a high standard.
• Manage Vercel deployment workflows, ISR revalidation, preview environments, and third-party integrations including Mux, HubSpot, and GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Drive performance best practices across Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, caching, accessibility (WCAG), and SEO.
• Partner with Marketing Operations on martech integrations and tooling, and collaborate with Digital and Growth on experimentation, landing pages, and analytics.
• Communicate progress, decisions, and trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders and leadership.
• The Stack
• Next.js 15 (React) with TypeScript, monorepo via Turborepo + Yarn workspaces Framework:
• Sanity Studio v3, GROQ queries via groqd, production and staging datasets CMS:
• Vercel with ISR and on-demand revalidation Hosting & Deployment:
• Mux Video:
• HubSpot CRM / Forms:
• GitHub Actions Pipelines:
• external agency Execution partner:
• What We’re Looking For
• Required
• 6-8+ years of professional experience in full-stack or frontend-heavy web development.
• 4+ years of production experience with React and Next.js, including SSR, SSG, app router, and performance optimisation.
• Strong fluency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
• Deep experience with Sanity or a comparable headless CMS, including content modelling, GROQ, structured data, and composable architecture.
• Proficiency with Vercel: deployments, ISR, edge functions, preview environments, and environment management.
• Solid grasp of Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse performance auditing, and frontend performance tuning.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions.
• Experience managing third-party integrations (video hosting, CRM, marketing tooling).
• Proven ability to manage an external agency or vendor: directing, reviewing, and holding partners accountable.
• Strong project management instincts: you can own delivery end-to-end without a dedicated PM.
• Clear, direct communicator, equally comfortable writing a technical spec and presenting trade-offs to marketing leadership.
• Comfortable operating autonomously in a small, fast-moving environment where priorities shift and pace is relentless.
• Nice to Have
• Experience improving and scaling an existing web platform, ideally on a headless CMS and Jamstack stack.
• Familiarity with marketing analytics platforms: GA4, Segment, PostHog, Adobe Analytics, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with HubSpot integrations or similar CRM/marketing automation tooling.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, Playwright).
• Familiarity with monorepo tooling such as Turborepo or Nx.
• Familiarity with AI or developer-tooling products (bonus for Fireworks-adjacent domain knowledge).
• Experience in a founding or first-in-function role at a startup or scale-up.
• Who Thrives Here
• You are energised by ownership, not overwhelmed by it. You are comfortable being the only engineer in the room, confident making calls
• able to clearly articulate why. You bridge technical depth with business outcomes and you know how to design systems that unlock collaboration between content, design
• development. You care about craft but know when to move fast.
• Total compensation for this role also includes meaningful equity in a fast-growing startup, along with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Base salary is determined by a range of factors including individual qualifications, experience, skills, interview performance, market data
• work location. The listed salary range is intended as a guideline and may be adjusted.
• Base Pay Range (Plus Equity)
• $200,000 — $230,000 USD
• Why Fireworks AI?
• Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
• Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
• Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
• Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.
• Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.