Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Posted Yesterday
Hiring Remotely in Chicago, IL, USA
Remote or Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Insurance • Machine Learning • Software
Commercial underwriting powered by decision science/AI.
The Role
Design and build scalable features for Convr’s core SaaS platform while embedding with strategic insurance customers. Develop across the stack using TypeScript, React, and Next.js; architect integrations and workflows; optimize APIs, databases, and user interfaces; contribute to testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and performance; identify reusable customer needs; and mentor teammates. The role also involves technical workshops, customer consulting, deployment ownership, and travel to customer sites up to 20%.
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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Founded in 2016, Convr transforms outdated, manual processes into structured, decision-ready workflows.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:

  • 7+ 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.
  • Familiarity with insurance and underwriting operations, gained through prior work in insurtech or with carriers, MGAs, or brokers
  • Ability and interest to travel up to 20% as needed to customer sites.

Why Join Convr?

  • Full Transparency. We believe in open communication with our team and customers.
  • We foster a work-life balance. We believe in flexibly because "life" happens!
  • Team mentality. We believe in "All Hands-on Deck"! Helping one another regardless of department.
  • Everyone knows your name. We are a high growth, dynamic, entrepreneurial company comprised of passionate team members committed to changing the commercial insurance industry. You will not be just a number!
  • We believe in challenging yourself to develop your career.
  • We are a team of experts who strive to be the best!

Benefits & Compensation

  • Remote work opportunities
  • 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

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of professional experience in full-stack or frontend development, specifically within SaaS products or startup environments.
  • Strong coding proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C++, or a similar language.
  • Hands-on experience with Next.js App Router, including server components, layouts, streaming, and caching.
  • Experience with tRPC or equivalent type-safe API frameworks.
  • Experience implementing complex, data-heavy views with Tailwind and component libraries such as shadcn/ui or Mantine.
  • Ability to design scalable systems and understanding of frontend performance, state management, and accessibility.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work autonomously as a customer consultant and technical partner.
  • Familiarity with insurance and underwriting operations through work in insurtech or with carriers, MGAs, or brokers.
  • Ability and interest to travel up to 20% to customer sites as needed.
  • Background in UI/UX design or experience working closely with designers.
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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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