Forward Deployed Engineer

Company Overview:
Dialectic is a crypto-native firm of builders and capital advisors focused on investing in and building software across emerging crypto and blockchain technologies. We advise multiple liquid crypto funds specializing in DeFi yield strategies, run venture activity in the crypto/blockchain space. We produce outlier results through diversified investment strategies across the decentralized finance ecosystem.


Job Summary:
We are looking for an Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team full-time and support development across the blockchain stack and internal tooling. This position offers an exciting role as part of a small and dynamic team, with the ability to shape and impact technical decisions and direction while leveraging modern AI tooling to ship faster and smarter.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend tooling and services in Rust, React, Python  and TypeScript, leveraging AI coding agents and copilots throughout the development workflow.
• Work closely with the CTO and Development teams to align on product specs and deployment.
• Build and maintain internal tooling utilized by the the whole team to streamline business process and improve operational efficiency.
• Work closely with different departments to receive and understand requirement and design and develop solutions.
• Participate in technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions for on-chain protocols and off-chain infrastructure.
• Work closely with the broader engineering and investment teams to automate internal processes and support capital deployment decisions with on-chain data and insights.

Key Requirements:

• 3 years professional software development experience.
• AI-native: deep fluency with modern AI tools (LLMs, coding agents, copilots) as a core, daily part of how you build, debug, research, and learn.
• Familiarity with Agentic system, workflow design, harness integration and agentic engineering.
• Experience with DeFi protocol design, cross-chain/intents systems, or solver development is a strong plus.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: independent, self-motivated, and driven — open-source contributions, grants, or founding/early-stage roles are a strong signal.
• Strong work ethic, team player, and detail-oriented.
• Based in Switzerland and able to work full-time from our office in Zug.

Benefits:

Dialectic offers an exceptional work culture:

• Dynamic and collegiality in a small team working in fields that are shaping the future of our society.
• As a modern employer, we offer you contemporary working conditions, a lot of space to develop yourself alongside the company as well as exciting and challenging projects.
• Compelling compensation, bonus, and participation opportunities.
• Exposure to extremely talented people and very interesting clients who have unique investment profiles.
• Supportive work and team atmosphere with flat hierarchies and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
• Dialectic is an equal-opportunity employer with a strong diversity of ideas.