About the company
At Paradigm, we are changing the future of finance! By joining us at this early stage, youāll be building cutting-edge, distributed financial service infrastructure that will reshape financial services across CeFi and DeFi markets. Paradigm is a zero-fee, institutional liquidity network for derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi. We provide unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on execution preferences, costs, and immediacy. Weāve built the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto, with over 1000 institutional clients trading over $10 B per month. We are a diverse, global team led by our organizational principles and united by our mission to bring on-demand liquidity for traders, anytime and anywhere, without compromises. We also strive to ship faster than anyone else in the industry! We are backed by the best traders and investors in the space, including Jump Capital, Genesis Trading, Dragonfly Capital, QCP Capital, Optiver US, IMC, GSR Markets, Akuna Capital, Fidelity Digital Assets CMT Digital, Goldentree Asset Management, Amber Group, OK Group, Bybit Fintech, and CoinShares.
Job Summary
What you'll be doing
šUnderstanding what resources, people, and technology the teams need to share versus where they need to run independently. šHolding frequent syncs with the team managers and diving deep into tech and product independently. šMonitoring ongoing activities on different channels and meetings, and intervening when things don't go well. šWorking closely with product, quant, and business strategy departments to develop strong relationships and ensuring smooth inter-departmental collaborations. šConstantly spotting problems and helping managers make better decisions. šBeing able to jump in and assist when there are concerns or gaps in the team's work. šTaking a hands-on approach to managing, not just based on secondary information but by understanding the product and technology deeply. šBeing able to operate in a resource-constrained situation and make significant progress before escalating issues. šBalancing the need to support a live product whilst still building new features.
Requirements
š10+ years experience in high-performing software engineering organizations š5+ years experience directly managing talented engineers š2+ years experience managing managers šExperience in FinTech (ideally focused on institutional trading) šExperience in Blockchain/Crypto or a strong passion for it šExperience managing at all employment phases: interviewing, hiring, onboarding, evaluating and improving performance, promotions, and terminations šDeep technical and product understanding of the problems your team solves, resulting from a product engineering background prior to, or alongside, management šPassion for making wonderful products that customers love. This implies that you are an expert on every product you've worked on, obsessed with all relevant details. You also never blindly delegate and enjoy immense credibility and respect among your team. šReal-world experience with success and failure shipping scalable cloud products and, most importantly, a wealth of resulting learning to draw upon and a relentless drive to continue improving
