Forward Deployed Engineer (Entry-Level / Early Career)

Junior Forward Deployed Engineer

We're building the modern infrastructure for AI-driven insurance operations. That means well-structured data models, real-time event pipelines, clean APIs, and usable tools that support humans and agents working in parallel.

As a Software Engineer at Chestnut, you'll join a high-agency, cross-functional team focused on delivering impactful features fast. You'll work across the stack, contribute to system design, and help shape the technical culture as we grow.

What You'll Do

Implement our platform for new customersmapping data, building workflows, writing glue code

Write scripts, API calls, and internal tools to unblock onboarding and drive adoption

Support onboarding efforts by translating messy customer data into structured, usable formats

Work alongside senior engineers and solutions folks to turn customer needs into delivered outcomes

Identify gaps in current tooling and suggest improvements to our AI and deployment stack

Learn a ton. This is a high-context, high-velocity role, and we'll invest in helping you grow

What We're Looking For

02 years experience, with solid coding fundamentals (Python, Go, or TypeScript ideal)

Curious, resourceful, and biased toward actionyou're not afraid to figure things out

Interest in applied AIwhether it's workflow automation, data enrichment, or retrieval-augmented generation

Strong communicator who wants to understand both the tech and the business

Comfortable with ambiguity, eager to learn from others, and motivated to own real problems

Willingness to travel up to 25% for high-leverage, in-person work

Bonus: experience with LLMs, open-source AI tools, or side projects that shipped

Why You Might Be a Fit

You want to do more than just write codeyou want to build things people actually use. You're excited about AI, but you care more about what it can do than how it's marketed. You want to be close to the customer, close to the product, and in the room as decisions get made. We'll give you real scope, real mentorship, and a real path to grow.

Our Stack

Languages: Go, TypeScript

Frontend: React

Orchestration: Temporal, Dagster

Infra: AWS, K8s, ArgoCD

Data: Postgres, Dynamo, Snowflake

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity, with 10 year exercise window for stock options

Remote-first culture built on trust, autonomy, and high performance

Team offsites for all of us to bond

Take what you need vacation policy

Top notch health, dental, and vision insurance subsidized by us