Partner Engineer

Department: Product

Location: San Francisco Office, NYC Office

Employment Type: FullTime

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!

As Tempo's Partner Engineer, you'll be the technical force behind how the world's most important financial infrastructure integrates with our protocol. You'll own integration surfaces end to end to get wallets, bridges, custody providers, and compliance tools across the finish line, debugging blockers in real time, writing the guides and templates that make integrations repeatable, and turning what you learn in partner channels into better product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering and GTM to lead integration strategy across wallets, bridges, custody, compliance, and infrastructure partners, writing the guides, templates, and tooling that make integrations faster and more reliable

• Own adoption of Tempo's core features by building dashboards and trackers, identifying who should be using what and why they aren't, and driving partners to ship

• Debug integrations directly with partners in real time; own the resolution and make sure the same issue doesn't surface again

• Translate repeated integration pain into clear product requirements, API changes, and developer experience improvements, and be the most informed voice on the integration layer inside the product org

• Proactively identify new integration opportunities and surfaces where a targeted push unlocks meaningful adoption

Qualifications

• Experience building or deploying production blockchain applications in wallets, stablecoin orchestration, bridges, custody, or protocol infrastructure

• Deep EVM fluency: smart contract systems, gas mechanics, RPC behavior, token standards, contract deployment

• Technically strong enough to prototype, debug, test, and verify fixes independently

• Exceptional communicator with experience working across technical and non-technical audiences

Attributes

• Treats integration issues as product problems, not tickets to close

• Sharp, fast thinker who can context switch between a production incident and a product spec in the same afternoon

• Thrives in ambiguity and comfortable defining the job as much as executing it

• Intense curiosity about how financial infrastructure actually works at the protocol level

• High ownership: if a partner isn't succeeding, that's your problem to solve