Forward Deployed Engineer

Convr; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Company Paid Holidays

Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, V

Life insurance & disability

Job summary

Convr is transforming commercial underwriting with a modern SaaS platform. We seek a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to blend architecture with hands-on engineering, delivering features for strategic customers while shaping product direction from real-world usage.

You’ll work across the stack, optimize performance, and mentor peers while traveling up to 20% to customer sites in the United States.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional full-stack or frontend SaaS experience.
• Hands-on with Next.js App Router and server components.
• Strong knowledge of Commercial P&C insurance lifecycle.
• Experience with tRPC or equivalent type-safe APIs.
• Experience creating data-heavy UI with Tailwind and component libraries.
• Ability to design scalable systems and optimize frontend performance.
• Excellent communication and autonomous work style.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of new features for the core SaaS product.
• Work across stack from DB queries to UI/UX.
• Architect production-ready integrations and workflows.
• Write high-quality TypeScript code with React/Next.js patterns.
• Identify universal customer needs to influence core direction.
• Contribute to CI/CD, testing, and performance monitoring.
• Mentor teammates and establish engineering best practices.

Skills

Next.js

TypeScript

Frontend

SaaS

API design

UI/UX collaboration

Tools

Tailwind

shadcn/ui

Mantine

Git

Job description

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 Founded in 2016, Convr transforms outdated, manual processes into structured, decision-ready workflows.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.
• Hands-on experience with Next.js App Router (server components, layouts, streaming, caching).
• Strong experience in Commercial P&C Insurance and understanding of the underwriting lifecycle (submission through quote)
• 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

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Company Paid Holidays
• Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, vision, short-term & long-term disability, life insurance, and accident coverage)
• 401K
• 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.