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You’ll work directly with customers to design integrations, guide deployments, and ensure they can run our platform reliably in production. This is a hands-on, client-facing role. You’ll design architectures for complex environments, support implementation, troubleshoot issues, and help teams integrate wallet infrastructure into their products and systems. You’ll work closely with CTOs, architects, and engineering teams while collaborating internally with product, backend, and security teams to deliver solutions that are secure, scalable, and production-ready. 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