Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Derivative Path, an award-winning financial technology firm, as a Staff Engineer. You will bridge our stream-aligned and platform teams, driving platform adoption and establishing engineering standards. Leverage your technical expertise and leadership to improve developer productivity and create feedback mechanisms. This role involves collaborating with various teams, developing technical standards, and measuring platform success. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits, and a flexible, hybrid work environment.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k contribution
• Flexible spend accounts
• Generous paid time off policy