Forward Deployed Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in Schaumburg, IL, USA
Remote or Hybrid
150K-170K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Insurance • Machine Learning • Software
Commercial underwriting powered by decision science/AI.
The Role
The Forward Deployed Engineer will lead the design and implementation of scalable features for a SaaS platform, optimizing the tech stack and enhancing customer solutions while mentoring teammates and driving best practices.
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Forward Deployed Software Engineer 

About Convr: Convr is an AI underwriting, data, and intelligent document automation workbench built for commercial P&C insurers. We help carriers, MGAs, and brokers accelerate premium growth, improve risk insights, and drive operational efficiency. Founded in 2016, Convr transforms outdated, manual processes into structured, decision-ready workflows. Our modular platform manages underwriting from submission through quote with a purpose-built AI decisioning context engine – grounded in a commercial insurance ontology – ensuring complete data and smarter decisions, faster, while enabling a frictionless experience and superior performance. As we scale, we’re building a team shaping the future of commercial underwriting. Join us in modernizing commercial insurance with modern AI.

Role Overview: We are looking for a Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) who thrives at the intersection of high-level architecture and deep-stack technical execution. This isn't a "one-off" integration role. You are a hybrid of a software engineer, product strategist, and technical consultant.

You will embed with our most strategic customers to solve their most complex problems. However, your mission is dual-purpose: while you deliver immediate value to the customer, you are simultaneously acting as a product scout. You will identify patterns in customer needs and translate those into scalable, core features for our SaaS platform.

What You'll be Doing:

  • Lead the design and implementation of new features in our core SaaS product. You aren't just building for one user; you are building for the platform.
  • Work across the entire stack, from optimizing database queries and API endpoints to crafting intuitive UI/UX.
  • Architect production-ready integrations and workflows. You will lead technical workshops with stakeholders to define "future state" solutions.
  • Write high-quality, type-safe, and maintainable code in TypeScript, leveraging modern React and Next.js patterns for performance and scalability.
  • Prevent "bespoke bloat." Identify universal customer needs and collaborate with product and engineering teams to bake those into the core technical direction.
  • Contribute to CI/CD, testing, and performance monitoring to ensure the stability and reliability of your deployments.
  • Mentor teammates and establish engineering best practices to level up the entire team’s output.

Who You Are:

  • You think in terms of scalability. When you build a solution for one customer, you’re already thinking about how it could benefit the next ten.
  • You take 100% ownership of the success of your deployments. You don't wait for a ticket; you find the bottleneck and fix it.
  • You are as comfortable whiteboarding a system diagram for a CTO as you are submitting a pull request for a mission-critical API endpoint.

Experience Requirements:

  • 10+ years of professional experience in full-stack or frontend development, specifically within SaaS products or startup environments.
  • Strong coder with shown proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, or similar.
  • Hands-on experience with Next.js App Router (server components, layouts, streaming, caching).
  • Experience with tRPC or equivalent type-safe API frameworks.
  • Experience implementing complex, data-heavy views with Tailwind and component libraries (shadcn/ui, Mantine, etc.). Background in UI/UX design or working closely with designers is highly preferred.
  • Ability to design scalable systems and a solid understanding of frontend performance, state management, and accessibility.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work autonomously, acting as a consultant/partner to our customers while remaining accountable for deliverables.
  • Ability and interest to travel up to 20% as needed to customer sites.

Benefits & Compensation

    • Remote work
    • Flexible Paid Time Off
    • Company Paid Holidays
    • Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, short-term & long-term disability, life insurance, and accident coverage)
    • 401K
    • Paid Parental Leave
    • The annual salary for this role falls within the range of $150,000 to $170,000. The final compensation will be determined based on factors such as location, experience, education, skills, and industry knowledge.

    Why Join Convr? Joining our team means becoming a vital part of a high-growth, entrepreneurial mission to redefine the commercial insurance industry. We’ve traded corporate silos for radical transparency and a shared ownership mentality, ensuring that every voice is heard, and no one is just a number. We believe in the power of flexibility because we know life happens, and we empower our people with the autonomy to maintain a genuine work-life balance. As a team of experts striving for excellence, we will challenge you to develop your career and sharpen your craft alongside passionate colleagues who are committed to your success as they are to our collective impact.

    Skills Required

    • 10+ years of professional experience in full-stack or frontend development
    • Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, or similar
    • Hands-on experience with Next.js
    • Experience with type-safe API frameworks like tRPC
    • Experience with Tailwind and component libraries, background in UI/UX design preferred
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    The Company
    HQ: Schaumburg, IL
    48 Employees
    Year Founded: 2016

    What We Do

    Convr is the leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) company that is digitally transforming commercial P&C underwriting. Convr’s d3 Underwriting™ solution uses data discovery and decision science to empower commercial carriers to achieve underwriting and operational excellence through digitizes submission paperwork, such as ACORD applications and loss runs reducing manual data entry, provides insights on risks from thousands of data sources, uses machine learning to respond to underwriting questions saving significant underwriter time while improving accuracy and enables risk selection and prioritization providing a better underwriting experience and proven ROI. Convr provides Commercial Insurers a consistent, end-to-end experience that surfaces the right data at the right time to provide insight to underwrite risk faster and at higher quality. AI is trained with over six years of experience across a broad client base, including 3 Top 10 carriers in the US, providing a high degree of insurance form and loss run extraction capability.  Provides a data lake with over 2000 data sources ensuring a consistent, updated information on a business’s digital footprint to inform better underwriting decisions. We offer World-class customer success and services including support for change management, integration and ongoing strategic partnership. Learn more at https://convr.com      

    Why Work With Us

    We are a diverse group of driven individuals that love to solve problems. No politics, no wasting time in meetings or typing out meaningless CYA emails. We are all about serving insurers, our customers, and growing the company organically through strong core values.

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