catena - Forward Deployed Engineer

United States4mo ago

Remote Senior NA Cryptocurrency Fintech Compliance Officer Fellow TypeScript Python Claude React Go

Requirements

• 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 • 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Most forward deployed roles drop you into mature products at mature companies. This one puts you at the front line of a category that doesn't exist yet. The problems are emerging and unsolved: how do you give an AI agent a verifiable identity, govern what it's allowed to do, and prove after the fact that it stayed within bounds — all within an existing organization. You'll be the person figuring this out with the first enterprises to ever attempt it, and what you learn in the field will directly shape the platform millions of agents eventually run on. • Catena is pursuing a national trust bank charter because the agentic economy deserves the same regulatory foundation that underpins the rest of the financial system. If you want to be part of building that foundation — and work directly with the enterprises putting it to use — we want to hear from you.