Forward Deployed Engineer
Forward Deployed Engineer who works directly with enterprise customers to architect, build, and deploy AI agent solutions in regulated financial systems. Requires 5+ years full-stack experience and fluency with AI tools.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Work directly with customers to understand their technical and operational objectives, scope requirements, and prototype and propose solutions — then build them
- Design, code, and launch features that improve and innovate on Catena's core platform, including the applications, APIs, and SDKs that enable secure, reliable commerce between AI agents and the financial system
- Build and configure agent identity and credentialing systems within customer environments, ensuring every agent can be verified and every transaction can be audited
- Drive product deployments end-to-end: configuration, policy setup, testing, and troubleshooting across diverse technical environments, including legacy financial infrastructure
- Dive deep into customer codebases to understand how they're using Catena's products, surface friction points, and identify opportunities for improvement
- Champion customer success — ensure Catena's team understands, prioritizes, and acts on customer feedback and pain points
- Partner with internal stakeholders to continuously align Catena's product roadmap and strategy with what customers actually need in the field
Who You Are
- 5+ years of professional, hands-on full-stack development experience with languages such as TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar
- Track record of shipping complex, production-quality features from initial concept through production
- Excel at rapid prototyping while maintaining appropriate quality standards
- Superb problem-solving skills and an ability to understand customer needs and the product and business context of your work
- Excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders; comfortable in a room with a customer, a compliance officer or a fellow engineer
- Thrives in ambiguous environments; high ownership, entrepreneurial mindset, deep sense of urgency
- Committed to building systems that are performant, reliable, and secure
- Fluent with AI development tools (Claude Code, Codex, etc) as a core part of your daily workflow; you direct, validate, and own the output
Nice to Have
- Experience in fintech, payments, blockchain, or regulated financial infrastructure
- Hands-on experience building AI-driven solutions or integrating with modern AI toolkits with public facing examples
- Experience writing agent skills and know when and how to reach for them
- Genuine curiosity about AI agents, stablecoins, and programmable identity
- Proficiency with our core stack: TypeScript, Python, React
- Contributions to relevant open-source projects or published work — code, blog posts, presentations, or papers
Skills
TypeScript, Python, Go, React, Ai Development Tools, Claude Code, Codex
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