What is Derive (formerly Lyra)?
Derive is building a cornerstone of the new, open-source financial system. Derive is the largest decentralized options exchange in crypto, having settled over $5 billion in volumes to date. The team consists of ex-FAANG engineers, traders from top traditional market making firms, quants, and founding members of successful DeFi protocols.
Job Description:
You will be designing and building core product features end-to-end that touch thousands of traders and over $100m in trading volume every week. The team is looking for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about building financial products and is able to work in a fast paced environment with a small team. They should be a self-starter with a passion for crypto, product and design, and have strong attention to detail.
Location: fully remote, preferred timezones North America and Asia Pacific
Responsibilities:
- Work across client, server, architecture, and infrastructure that powers our web products
- Rapidly implement core product features and UI elements from design mocks, with an eye toward clarity, performance and accessibility, ensuring that components are functional, elegant, performant, and mobile-friendly
- Know when to create abstractions vs. one-off features
- Provide mentorship and feedback to other engineers on the team through both code and design doc reviews
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional SWE experience
- Experience with TypeScript in React
- A deep understanding of the architecture of modern client-side React applications
- Familiarity with the web3 frontend stack (ethers.js/web3.js/viem, EIP-1193, client-side private key management, etc.)
- Built and shipped a software product into the wild with real users
- Good listening and communication skills
- Ability to work independently but at a high pace
- Excited to work in DeFi
What We Value:
- Initiative to pitch and drive your own ideas
- Design skills (we encourage our frontend engineers to tackle design work for the features they implement)
- Prior experience creating a design system or component library
- Experience building, designing or trading options and perps
