Federato
0 open Forward Deployed Engineer roles at Federato, plus 1 closed. Curated with comp bands.
On the board since Aug 2026 · no roles open right now
Our take
Why Federato
A senior, stay-hands-on FDE seat in an unglamorous insurance vertical with an unusually deep deployment surface — and, post-$100M Series D, real scale behind it.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Remote-first
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Growth-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Senior engineers who want to stay heavily hands-on in Python, JS and SQL
- People who value a remote US/Canada base
- Those who'll trade glamour for deployment depth in insurance
- Engineers who want to own the delivery playbooks a growing FDE pod scales on
RiskOps for insurance underwriting
Federato is an AI-native platform spanning the full insurance policy lifecycle — triage, appetite, portfolio strategy and underwriting workflow. It pulls submissions from an underwriter's inbox and ranks each account by how well it fits appetite and the odds of winning it, a model carriers describe as a unified 'RiskOps' core. Founded in 2020 and backed by operators from Salesforce, Veeva and Box, it serves carriers, MGAs and mutuals.
The senior FDE seat
You own scoping and delivery of complex implementations, serve as the technical escalation point for integrations, lead discovery calls, and influence architecture. Crucially, you also build the best-in-class delivery playbooks and mentorship that a growing FDE pod will scale on — so the leverage isn't just your own deployments, it's the system every future FDE here runs.
What “forward deployed” means here
This is true forward-deployed work with real code depth: you stay heavily hands-on in Python, JavaScript and SQL while embedding underwriting-workflow AI into carriers' environments. Insurance is unglamorous, but the deployment surface — portfolio strategy, appetite, triage — is unusually deep, and the role is remote within the US and Canada rather than travel-heavy.
Comp & leveling
The board shows $160,000–$200,000 base plus stock options — competitive for a senior remote FDE seat, if a notch below frontier-lab bands. The range and the explicit 'senior' framing point to leveling that rewards both engineering depth and playbook ownership, not just years in seat. Equity sits on a private valuation that just stepped up materially.
Scale behind the seat
Federato closed a $100M Series D in November 2025, led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing total funding past $180M — less than a year after a $40M Series C. The company says it tripled revenue in the prior year. For an FDE, that means a growing pod and deliberate delivery scaling rather than firefighting.
Who thrives, and who bounces
Thrives: senior ICs who want hands-on code plus playbook leverage, are comfortable in a depth-over-glamour domain, and want to help shape a scaling delivery org. Bounces: anyone chasing frontier-lab prestige, pure greenfield product work, or a role where the vertical itself needs to be exciting.
Questions candidates ask
Is this role remote?
Yes — it's remote within the US and Canada.
What will I actually code?
You stay heavily hands-on in Python, JavaScript and SQL, embedding underwriting-workflow AI into carriers' environments.
What's the compensation?
A base of $160,000–$200,000 plus stock options — competitive for a senior remote FDE seat.
Is Federato well-funded?
Yes — a $100M Series D closed in Nov 2025 (led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives), with over $180M raised in total.
Analysis updated 2026-10-15
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