ForwardDeployed Engineer

About the Role

Our client is seeking a Forward-Deployed Engineer to serve as the dedicated technical partner to its Business Development team. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, trading, and commercial strategy, focusing on identifying promising opportunities and rapidly building solutions that create new revenue streams. The ideal candidate is a hands-on builder with experience across DeFi and digital assets, strong trading awareness, and the ability to move quickly in fast-paced environments where ownership and execution matter.

Responsibilities

Evaluate emerging DeFi and trading opportunities, assessing technical feasibility, risk, market dynamics, and potential P&L. Build and deploy solutions including bridging infrastructure, liquidation bots, RWA minting/redemption workflows, and AMM liquidity strategies. Rapidly develop MVPs to validate opportunities and support strategic business initiatives. Act as the primary technical resource embedded within the Business Development organization. Help incubate and launch new trading or commercial initiatives from concept through validation and scale.

Requirements

Background as a DeFi engineer, technical trader, DeFi founder, or similarly hands-on crypto builder with an understanding of liquidity, market structure, execution, and P&L. Proven ability to build and ship quickly, turning loosely defined ideas into working products while operating with a high degree of autonomy. Hands-on experience with DeFi primitives such as bridging, liquidations, lending protocols, RWAs, AMMs, smart contract integrations, and on-chain infrastructure. Strong proficiency in Solidity, Python, and TypeScript/Node.js, including smart contract interactions, protocol integrations, automation, data analysis, and application development. Excellent communication skills with the ability to partner effectively across engineering, trading, business development, and external stakeholders. Additional

Qualifications

Experience working with blockchain networks, smart contracts, decentralized applications, and Web3 infrastructure. Familiarity with DeFi ecosystems and applications, including trading, lending, liquidity, staking, tokenization, or related financial products. Exposure to blockchain development frameworks, analytics platforms, data tools, and infrastructure commonly used across digital asset environments. Experience building automation, integrations, monitoring systems, analytics solutions, or operational tooling for crypto, fintech, or trading-related applications. Interest in emerging areas of digital assets, including institutional adoption, tokenized assets, cross-chain ecosystems, market infrastructure, and on-chain financial services.