Staff Engineer, Derivative Path
Unified capital markets platform
Open for applications
Unified capital markets platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to capital markets products and technologies for all market participants.
Role
Who you are
- We're seeking an experienced Staff Engineer, with a proven track record as a Senior Engineer, to serve as a key bridge between our stream-aligned teams and platform teams
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with experience in both platform and product development
- Strong track record of driving technical standards and best practices across multiple teams
- Experience with developer experience (DX) improvements and measuring engineering productivity
- Excellence in gathering and synthesizing feedback from multiple stakeholders
- Strong data analysis skills for measuring and reporting on platform adoption and success metrics
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with ability to translate between technical and business needs
- Experience with modern development practices and tooling
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Experience with internal developer platforms and platform engineering
- Background in developer advocacy or developer relations
- Experience with DORA metrics and engineering productivity measurement
- Track record of successful change management in engineering organizations
- Experience with service catalogs and internal platform products
What the job involves
- In this role, you'll leverage your technical depth and leadership experience to drive platform adoption, establish and measure engineering standards, and ensure our platform capabilities evolve based on real team needs
- Reporting to the CTO, you'll be instrumental in creating a feedback loop that helps both platform teams and product teams succeed
- Be the voice of stream-aligned teams in platform decisions and roadmap planning
- Drive measurable improvements in platform adoption and developer productivity
- Create feedback mechanisms that help our platform evolve based on real needs
- Influence technical standards and practices across the engineering organization
- Build strong relationships across teams to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Partnering with stream-aligned teams to understand their platform needs, challenges, and feedback
- Working with platform teams to translate team feedback into platform improvements and new capabilities
- Developing and implementing technical standards across teams, ensuring they're practical and valuable
- Creating and tracking metrics to measure platform adoption, developer productivity, and standards compliance
- Building tools and automation to help teams adopt platform capabilities and follow standards
- Leading technical discovery sessions to understand pain points and opportunities
- Documenting and sharing best practices, success stories, and lessons learned
- Facilitating communication between platform and stream-aligned teams
Our take
Derivative trading often proves unattainable for many organizations due to barriers like limited access, complex compliance regulations, and intricate hedge accounting procedures. Derivative Path effectively addresses these challenges through its capital markets platform.
A key strength of Derivative Path lies in the collective expertise of its team, comprising seasoned professionals with backgrounds in private equity and venture capital from reputable institutions like Wells Fargo and Barclays. Leveraging this hands-on experience, the company adeptly meets the needs of financial institutions and trading firms. Providing institutions with a more efficient avenue for accessing capital markets, earning the company an impressive client roster that includes Simmons Bank and United Community Bank.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of capital markets technology, companies like AlphaSense vie for prominence. However, DDerivative Path distinguishes itself by its dedicated focus on derivatives and an array of tools, setting it apart from other trading fintech primarily centered on data analysis.
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Insights
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2020
$35m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $35m
Company HQ
Walnut Creek, CA
Leadership
Pradeep Bhatia
(CEO)Started as an Investment Banking Associate at US Bank, before joining Societe Generale as VP of Leveraged Finance. Was Head of Bank Coverage at Wells Fargo.
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