Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will be the primary technical owner for building new capabilities with Catena's most important customers. You will architect, develop, and deploy software that helps enterprises put AI agents to work in the regulated financial system.

What you will do

• Work directly with customers to understand technical and operational objectives and build solutions
• Design, code, and launch features for Catena's core platform, including applications, APIs, and SDKs
• Build and configure agent identity and credentialing systems within customer environments
• Drive product deployments end-to-end including configuration, policy setup, testing, and troubleshooting
• Dive deep into customer codebases to identify friction points and improvement opportunities
• Champion customer success by ensuring feedback and pain points are prioritized
• Partner with internal stakeholders to align product roadmap with customer needs

Required qualifications

• 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
• Excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• 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

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

About the company

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.