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

Qualifications

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

Attributes

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