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

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