Technical Lead Engineer

Summary

Join Derivative Path, an award-winning financial technology firm, as a Principal 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 a positive feedback loop. This role requires strong communication, data analysis, and experience with modern development practices. 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