Forward Deployed Engineer

Temper; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

SF office

MacBook Pro

Health insurance

Multiple monitors

Job summary

Temper seeks an engineer to own the full lifecycle of enterprise integrations in production. You will scope, deploy, monitor, and keep integrations alive, coordinating with customers and cross-functional teams.

You will work in a fast-paced, early-stage environment in San Francisco, shipping real solutions with AI agents and durable execution. Equity, top-tier SF office, and productivity gear are offered.

Qualifications

• Shipped real products end-to-end multiple times
• Energized by customer problems and real-world impact
• Able to work independently with strong technical opinions

Responsibilities

• Own the full arc of getting Temper running in production at enterprise customers: scope integrations, deploy, and keep them live
• Build fixes directly in the product based on production feedback
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to drive production readiness and reliability

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Independent work

Customer empathy

Tools

TypeScript

React

Bun

Effect-TS

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Lack of connectivity is the most fundamental problem in the physical economy.

The physical economy only works as a network of interconnected companies, but it still runs on systems that were never designed to talk to each other. Every time two companies need to exchange data, someone builds a custom integration by hand. Business analysts, integration engineers, QA. All manual. Every time. Google EDI if you haven't. It's wild.

A lot of companies have tried to fix this. Nobody has. We think AI agents are the way to finally connect the physical economy.

Temper is an agentic integration platform for the real economy. Specialized AI agents handle the full lifecycle: gathering requirements in plain English, generating integration code, testing it, deploying it, and keeping it alive in production. When something breaks, the agents fix it.

We have paying enterprise customers. Real integrations running in production right now. There's more demand than we can keep up with.

Seed-funded, with over $8M raised. Still an early team, under 10 of us.

These aren't chatbots or thin wrappers on an LLM. The agents do real work with real consequences in production systems.

Some of what you'd build:

• Agent orchestration across multiple specialized agents coordinating complex workflows
• Platform engineering: basically a mini Vercel for integration runtime with durable execution
• Self-healing systems that detect failures and recover autonomously in production
• A knowledge base of undocumented systems that gets smarter with every integration

Nobody has shipped this kind of platform at production scale yet, even in other verticals.

Grew up in his family's trucking business. Built the freight product at Hive, Europe's leading eCom logistics startup, from 0 to $M. Hardware-native engineer who taught himself to code.

Ran 100+ person warehouse operations at Amazon, then consulted on system integrations at KPMG. Built Hive's largest revenue line from zero.

• Nick (CTO)

  Built Lilith at 16, led an offensive security program for a nation-state, entrepreneur for 8 years. In eCom, he led the tech that scaled a company from 0 to $100M in 3 years.

Daniel and Heinrich built Hive from pre-seed to 400+ people. They've been living this problem for years.

You'll own the full arc of getting Temper running in production at enterprise customers: scoping integrations, deploying them, and keeping them live. You're the person customers rely on when it matters.

Every customer engagement surfaces something: an edge case, a pattern, a gap. You'll build the fix yourself, directly in the product, and ship it. The feedback loop from production to roadmap to code runs through you.

Helpful, but not required TypeScript React Bun Effect-TS PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS

You're comfortable running multiple AI agents in parallel, and you pick up new things fast.

• You've shipped real things end-to-end, multiple times. You owned them.
• You're energized by customer problems, not just engineering ones.
• You code with AI agents and lean into it, with enough taste to know what's worth shipping.
• You hold strong technical opinions and change them when the evidence says so.
• You move independently.
• You want to do the best work of your career.
• You want a true early-stage, in-person experience in San Francisco: fast-paced, high intensity.
• Meaningful equity
• A top-tier office in San Francisco
• Equipment for maximum productivity: M5 MacBook Pro & more
• Full health coverage
• 1 Screen 20 min

  Quick chat, mutual fit.

• 2 Deep dive 45 min

  Your career, what you've built, how you think.

• 3 Technical 60 min

  Design a system with us. No leetcode.

• 4 Paid work day

  A real task from our backlog, in person.

• 5 Offer

  We move fast. Expect under two weeks from first call to offer.

Come build it with us

Think this is you?

If you want to own how Temper lands in production at real customers, reach out.