Forward Deployed Software Engineer

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.

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

• 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.
• Nice to have Wagmi, Viem, and Foundry experience and bonus for Solidity, Go, Rust, and infrastructure experience.
• 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

• High-energy, proactive, and execution-driven
• Engineer by trade with a deep curiosity for how systems work end-to-end
• Sharp communicator who can represent Tempo's technology with clarity and conviction
• Highly autonomous, comfortable prioritizing and shipping fixes directly in the field
• Collaborative and adaptable; learns fast from partners and feeds insights back into the product loop
• Scrappy and hands-on; willing to dive deep to make integrations succeed