Product 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 Product 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

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