Catena

Forward Deployed Engineer

Remote - United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 41 days ago

TypeScriptPythonGoReactFull-Stack DevelopmentRESTAgentic AIProduct ManagementProduct StrategyExcelCustomer SuccessProblem SolvingPublic Speaking

About the role

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
In this role, you'll combine deep technical expertise with a genuine understanding of customer and business objectives - architecting, developing, and deploying software that helps enterprises put AI agents to work in the regulated financial system.
You're the bridge between what Catena builds and what enterprises actually need to ship.
When the field reveals something our platform should do better, you'll bring that back and help us build it.

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
Superb problem-solving skills and an ability to understand customer needs and the product and business context of your work.

Experience in fintech, payments, blockchain, or regulated financial infrastructure
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
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.

Work directly with customers to understand their technical and operational objectives, scope requirements, and prototype and propose solutions - then build them
Partner with internal stakeholders to continuously align Catena's product roadmap and strategy with what customers actually need in the field
We're looking for an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer to be the primary technical owner for building new capabilities with Catena's most important customers.
You'll spend most of your time working alongside our customers' teams to understand how they're integrating Catena, where they hit friction, and what it takes to enable the next level of capability.
Every agent action at Catena flows through deterministic policies before execution - your job is to make sure our customers can build fully autonomous systems that they can trust: operating with complete observability over every agent intent, evaluation, and execution.
You'll work closely with fellow engineers, product, and business teams to ensure customers achieve their desired outcomes and are genuinely delighted by what we build.

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