Who We Are:
Droit is a technology company at the forefront of merging finance and computational law. We build software that digitizes regulations and makes intelligent decisions in real-time transactional systems. Our award-winning platform is providing mission-critical, low-latency services for the world’s most prominent and complex financial institutions.
At Droit, we seek candidates who are curious, driven, and willing to bring their unique skills and perspectives to our work. We offer the opportunity for employees with a range of experience to develop their skills while shaping our platform and making meaningful contributions to the firm.
About the role:
As a Forward Deployed Engineer you will work closely with Droit’s Technology team to design, develop, implement and deploy software and infrastructure. This role will also partner closely with our Business Development and Client Success teams, embedding with customers to understand their domain and co-develop solutions.
We are looking for someone who can understand technical, business, and client requirements to deliver software and solutions efficiently. You have experience developing, deploying and supporting software for large institutions. You are exceptional at approaching problems pragmatically. You thrive on helping clients succeed.
What You Will Do in this role:
- Understand clients' goals and objectives and develop strategies to help them achieve those goals, including gathering feedback to inform further product development.
- Work end-to-end across the entire development lifecycle from idea to deployment to measuring feature impact.
- Evangelize Droit technology amongst clients and internal stakeholders, prepare materials, POCs and demonstrate value, benefits and solutions. Develop deep insight and understanding of the audience, and what problems are important.
- Commit to learning the Droit application stack, and some of the business domain, to have a good understanding of what drives value for our clients. Reflect on client feedback and communicate nuance and details effectively.
- Work on client integrations, support Droit stakeholders, get feedback from clients and develop strategic solutions with your colleagues.
- Support infrastructure, improve incident detection, deploy new services, and improve operational maturity.
- Create architecture artifacts and reusable solution patterns (logical architecture diagrams, workflows, data flow diagrams, presentations, etc.) effectively communicating solutions to varied audiences.
- Ensure solutions meet policies and requirements for technical standards, security, operation, and support.
- Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals, both internally and with clients.
- Define and standardize processes and tooling across multiple projects.
What We Are Looking For:
- Experience shipping code in at least one high level language and writing tools in at least one scripting language.
- Competence with at least one modern CI/CD system, experience with alternatives.
- Strong Linux experience.
- At least 5 years of experience shipping products and solutions for distributed Platform-as-a-Service offerings.
- Experience operating, optimizing, maintaining and monitoring k8s clusters as a platform.
- Extensive experience with at least one IAC tool, and with GitOps tooling.
- Extensive experience with the core AWS service offerings (professional certs a plus).
- Experience developing robust infrastructure, launching a new tech stack, and supporting business critical applications in production.
- Experience with modern product development processes - collaborating with developers, product owners and QA, to address latency, performance, HA/FT, deployment, upgrades, etc.
- A strong desire to embed with customers, drive product decisions, and deliver excellent solutions to clients.
What we offer:
- Competitive compensation, including retirement benefits.
- Holistic benefits for you and your family to support your physical and mental health.
- A commitment to growth through continuous feedback and experiences.
- The opportunity to work in close-knit, global teams.
- Flexibility for where you work and purpose for when we come together in person.
A little more about Droit:
We believe in maintaining a diverse, innovative and inclusive workforce. Our people join us from a variety of backgrounds, and these diverse experiences help fuel our growth and ensure that our clients receive best-in-class products.
As we scale, we continue to commit to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or Veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.
For more details on the company, please visit our website.
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What We Do
Droit builds mission-critical, breakthrough products to advance global regulatory compliance and real-time controls. Droit partners with leading global financial institutions to create forward-looking operational and regulatory solutions within the ever-changing financial landscape.
Droit Adept is the innovative, patented platform that drives intelligent decision-making in a complex rule-driven landscape. The Adept platform provides an implementation of regulatory rules reflecting industry consensus. Institutions rely on Adept to provide solutions for pre-trade and post-trade controls, evaluating the permissibility of transactions, compliant regulatory reporting, and more. Adept generates decisions directly from digitized rules, regulations, and internal policies, visually represented in intuitive logic diagrams and linked back to the original sourced text. This complete traceability empowers users to act right with confidence.
With locations in New York, London, Sydney, and Singapore, Droit continues to broaden its industry reach and offer clients breakthrough products enabling them to take the next right action. Learn more at droit.tech.
