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You won't be alone - you'll be supported by senior FDEs and the platform team - but you'll own the build. You'll spend most of your time inside Titan Foundry, our Banking-Reasoning Models, and our Banking Agents framework, configuring and extending to fit each client's specific problem.\nThe growth path is into the senior FDE archetype: more off-platform building, deeper partnership with client engineering teams, broader architectural ownership.\nWhat you'll do\nBuild and ship agentic workflows on the Titan platform to solve specific banking use cases (lending, credit, compliance, ops)\n\nConfigure agents, write integrations, design evals, and wire up the observability that proves things work in production\n\nPartner directly with clients - operators, analysts, sometimes their engineers - to gather requirements, demo progress, and absorb feedback\n\nIterate fast: hypothesis, prototype, feedback, refine, ship\n\nCapture patterns back into the platform so your next build (and everyone else's) starts ahead\n\nLearn the banking domain rapidly through immersion - risk, controls, lending lifecycle, regulatory context\n\nWho you are\nA builder. Demonstrably. We'd rather see a GitHub full of unfinished experiments than a resume full of polished titles.\n\nUnconventional paths welcome - and frankly preferred. If you taught yourself to code while working in a different industry because you couldn't stop thinking about the opportunity, we want to talk.\n\nComfortable being client-facing or excited to become so. You don't need years of consulting; you do need to want to be in the room.\n\nHungry to learn banking. 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