Forward Deployed Engineer
Catena Labs is building a regulated financial institution and governance platform for AI agents, enabling controlled identities, accounts, payments, stablecoin and fiat liquidity, and auditable policy enforcement.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Catena Labs
Catena Labs, Inc. is a Delaware company developing infrastructure for agentic finance. Its Catena platform provides businesses and their AI agents with verified identities, accounts, payment capabilities across cards, ACH, wires, and stablecoins, plus deterministic policies, approvals, spending controls, and audit trails. Catena says its Private Access program is open to selected businesses, operates through regulated partners, and is pursuing an OCC national trust bank charter.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Own customer-facing technical delivery by architecting, developing, deploying, and improving software for AI-agent infrastructure in regulated financial environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on professional full-stack development experience with TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar.
- Track record of shipping complex production-quality features end-to-end.
- Ability to prototype rapidly while maintaining quality standards.
- Strong problem-solving and customer-context skills.
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous, high-ownership environments.
- Commitment to performant, reliable, and secure systems.
- Fluency with AI development tools such as Claude Code and Codex.
- Nice to have: fintech, payments, blockchain, regulated financial infrastructure, AI-driven solutions, agent skills, React, or open-source contributions.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers to understand objectives, scope requirements, prototype solutions, and build them.
- Design, code, and launch applications, APIs, and SDK features for Catena's core platform.
- Build and configure agent identity and credentialing systems in customer environments.
- Drive deployments end-to-end, including configuration, policy setup, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Analyze customer codebases, identify friction points, and surface product improvement opportunities.
- Champion customer success and incorporate customer feedback into priorities.
- Align product roadmap and strategy with customer needs.