Forward Deployed Software Engineer
About The Position
Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech. Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century. We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more. We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us! The Role We’re hiring for an early Forward Deployed Engineer to help Tempo’s partners move money on-chain. You’ll work directly with design partners to diagnose, design, build, and deliver production-ready applications and integrations. You’ll build world-class products that bring together the best in wallets, APIs, explorers, and payment systems, capable of turning any customer need into running code. This is a deeply technical, high-ownership role for someone who thrives on autonomy, collaboration, and execution. The ideal candidate combines the mindset of a product-oriented engineer with the instincts of a customer-facing developer, working across Tempo’s stack to unblock integrations, ship fixes quickly, and feed insights back into Product and Engineering. The role is ideal for customer- and product-centric engineers who aspire to be founders.
Requirements
- Experience as a fullstack software engineer or forward deployed engineer at a blockchain, fintech, or infrastructure company. Prior experience with customer-facing roles is not required, but may be beneficial.
- Deep proficiency in TypeScript is a must to build performant, delightful product experiences. The ideal candidate can take customer requirements to architect and design a solution, ship into production, and debug across frontend, backend, SDK, and onchain layers.
- Strong communication and customer empathy; able to bridge technical depth with clear, actionable guidance for non-technical audiences.
- Proven ability to operate independently and make product-level tradeoffs in high-context, fast-moving environments
Nice To Haves
- Wagmi, Viem, and Foundry experience and bonus for Solidity, Go, Rust, and infrastructure experience.
Responsibilities
- Scope, architect, and deliver customer applications that meet functional, security, and reliability requirements
- Build and own fullstack partner applications across frontend, backend, and on-chain components for partners on Tempo
- Stand up reliable backends with services, queues, and data models; integrate partner systems and third-party SDKs; optimize for performance and cost
- Prototype to validate with POCs and middleware to unblock partners quickly, and graduate successful patterns to production quality
- Collaborate with Product, Partnerships, and Engineering to prioritize and land high-impact improvements surfaced from the field
- Customer engagements can range from month-long embedded product builds, to week-long feature deliveries, to short-term Q&A and support work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
