Product Engineer, Derivatives Operations
Core
Translate business goals and user needs into product opportunities, prototype solutions, and ensure engineering quality for investment operations products.
Role type
Product Engineer (Investment Operations)
Builds
Enterprise products for investment management and financial institutions
Domain
FinTech / Investment Management / Derivatives Operations
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Software engineering fundamentals, prototyping, writing technical requirements and acceptance criteria, hands-on quality assurance, financial instruments knowledge (Repos, Derivatives, collateral/securities), stakeholder communication, AI coding assistant usage, critical evaluation of AI outputs, Agile/Scrum practices, system documentation
Preferred skills
Experience working directly with clients or external counterparties, ability to frame engineering decisions in terms of user and business value, comfort working in ambiguity, collaborative decision-making
Technologies
AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude)
Responsibilities
Translate business goals and user needs into product opportunities with clear value hypotheses, prototype solutions early to validate ideas, write and review technical requirements and acceptance criteria, assess feasibility and frame build-vs-integrate trade-offs, review and test deliverables against requirements, maintain a healthy prioritized product backlog
Seniority
Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC
