Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Federato
Remote
senior
February 11, 2026
$100k+
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Job Description
Federato is on a mission to defend the right to efficient equitable insurance for all.
We enable insurers to provide affordable coverage to people and organizations facing the issues of today - the climate crisis cyber-attacks social inflation etc.
Our vision is understood and well funded by those behind Salesforce Veeva Zoom Box etc.
Federato is the only AI-native platform that spans the full policy lifecycle and changes the way insurance work gets done.
Better decisioning is built-in not bolted on: insurers' unique portfolio goals strategies rules and appetite are part of the workflow so underwriters win the right deals faster.
From the moment a submission hits an underwriter’s inbox AI is put to work triaging submissions with a focus on high-appetite business delivering real-time feedback on the portfolio and consolidating workflows into a single proven system.
Federato drives better business outcomes.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Drive planning scoping and delivery of complex implementations — anticipate blockers manage customer timelines escalate issues and ensure launch readiness across functions.
- Serve as technical escalation point for integration and custom implementation issues.
Debug deep integration problems and design robust solutions tailored to client-specific constraints.
- Lead technical discovery calls with customers translate ambiguous requirements into scoped stories and build trust with customer stakeholders.
- Propose and influence architectural decisions — design implementation approaches optimized for product strengths and constraints; recommend process or feature improvements based on real-world deployment learnings.
- Represent the Forward Deployed Engineering function in product feedback feature prioritization and cross-functional alignment (working with Product Engineering Customer Success Product Marketing etc.).
- Drive continuous improvement: create and own best-in-class delivery playbooks onboarding processes internal training and technical mentorship for junior FDEs.
- Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to customers and internal stakeholders; influence roadmap priorities through structured data-driven feedback.
- This role will be heavily hands-on with coding including writing and debugging production and integration code in languages such as Python JavaScript and SQL as part of customer implementations and internal tooling.
Who We Hope You Are:
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline or equivalent experience
- 6-8+ years of software engineering systems engineering or technical product/program management experience
- Deep expertise across multiple product domains; ability to debug complex integrations and build custom solutions.
- Strong communication skills — able to lead discovery sessions manage client expectations present technical tradeoffs and influence stakeholders.
- Demonstrated track record mentoring or leading other engineers creating documentation/playbooks and contributing to internal process improvements and knowledge sharing.
- Cross-functional coordination skills organizational leadership in delivery settings and ability to own multiple customer timelines concurrently.
- Coding competency in SQL JavaScript and Python.
$160 000 - $200 000 a year
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Total compensation package does include stock options benefits and additional perks.
Here at Federato your capabilities are important but culture fit is essential.
We move fast are eager to listen to our users take a first principles approach to solving problems and value learning and the ability to change our minds.
Most importantly we're here to have fun.
Our ability to make a difference starts with our people.
We would love to work with you!
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
We will provide reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Please contact us to request accommodation at talent@federato.ai
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