Forward Deployed Engineer - Strala

Location: San Francisco, CA Work Model: Onsite (fully in-person) Industry: AI for enterprise insurance Compensation: $165K-$250K base, plus competitive Series A equity About the Company Our partner is a fast-growing, Series A AI company backed by top-tier investors, automating end-to-end insurance claims processing for the largest carriers. Revenue has grown roughly 50% month over month, the team has scaled to around 70 people, and it is on track to more than double by year end. Engineering is Python-heavy and deeply agentic. The culture is fast, feedback-rich, low on bureaucracy, and fully in-person. The Opportunity Our partner is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to sit at the intersection of engineering and the customer. You will build real product while working directly with enterprise clients, roughly 70% deep technical work and 30% client-facing communication. You will own problems end to end in an environment where you rarely have all the data, and where agency and ownership are prized above process. Responsibilities - Build and ship backend systems in a Python-heavy, agentic codebase - Work directly with enterprise clients to deploy and tailor solutions - Translate ambiguous customer needs into working software - Operate with high autonomy and ownership under fast deadlines Requirements - 1-7 years of software engineering experience - Strong Python and backend fundamentals - Excellent communication; comfortable meeting and working with clients - Founding or early-stage startup experience preferred - Ability to operate in an unstructured, fast-moving environment