DriveWealth is a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence around the world. Our mission is realized through an API-based platform, empowering our partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, all from their mobile devices.
Our technology provides partners with a modern, extensible toolkit, enabling traditional investment workflows and innovative techniques like fractional share ownership. DriveWealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.
We seek enthusiastic professionals to contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. Our culture blends the pace and opportunity of a tech start-up with the impact, stability, and significance of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. We value diversity and inclusion, celebrating the unique differences of our employees as we scale and grow together. We’re guided by operating principles grounded in accountability, teamwork, integrity, and solutions built to scale. Join us!
About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Brokerage Platform as a Service and API teams. In this role, you will work on the design and development of high-performance, scalable, and low-latency applications using Java, Kafka, Postgres on AWS. You’ll help build event-driven microservices that enable real-time data processing and high-throughput transaction handling. You will also contribute to optimizing the performance of databases, including strategies like partitioning to support our high-transaction environment.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with other engineers to ensure systems are designed for reliability, scalability, and performance, while focusing on delivering high-quality software in a fast-paced, cloud-native environment. You will have the opportunity to work with modern technologies, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput applications and cloud-native architectures. This role offers the chance to grow technically, collaborate with talented peers, and contribute to a high-impact platform used by clients worldwide.
What You’ll Do:
- Design and develop high-performance, multi-threaded applications in Java, optimized for low-latency and high-throughput
- Build and enhance event-driven microservices to ensure our platform can scale and handle high transaction volumes in real time
- Contribute to the design and implementation of database partitioning strategies to support distributed, high-transaction environments, ensuring the systems are efficient and scalable
- Implement and maintain messaging systems (e.g., Kafka) for asynchronous communication across services
- Collaborate with other engineers to design, implement, and improve CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated, efficient software delivery
- Write and maintain automated tests to ensure the stability and performance of the system, improving the quality and speed of development
- Optimize systems for performance and reliability, focusing on key non-functional requirements such as availability, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Participate in code reviews and mentorship, sharing knowledge and helping junior engineers improve their technical skills
- Work closely with infrastructure and product teams to ensure the software aligns with business goals and technical requirements
What You’ll Need:
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on Java and building high-performance systems
- Strong experience with multi-threading, concurrent programming, and designing low-latency systems to handle high throughput efficiently
- Experience in designing and building event-driven microservices using technologies like Kafka or ActiveMQ
- Familiarity with database partitioning and sharding strategies to scale relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra)
- Knowledge of cloud-native architectures and experience with cloud platforms such as AWS
- Hands-on experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines and working with DevOps tools to improve software delivery
- Experience with automated testing frameworks to ensure software quality and performance
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex systems and optimize them for performance and reliability
Nice To Have, But Not Required:
- Familiarity with containerization (e.g., Docker) and Kubernetes for managing cloud-based services
- Experience with distributed tracing or performance monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience in financial systems or brokerage platforms, with an understanding of performance and reliability challenges specific to such domains
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Compensation
Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.
Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay Range
$150,000—$170,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental Health and family planning services
- Unlimited paid time off with ten observed holidays
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- $2,500 each year to invest in continued education and personal development
- $75 a month in fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Company-provided phone
- Hybrid work experience that allows for flexibility
- For in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District
*The benefits outlined above are for US employees, benefit offerings vary based on location
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
TO ALL AGENCIES: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of DriveWealth outside of the Talent organization. DriveWealth’s policy is to only accept resumes from agencies via Greenhouse (ATS). Agencies must have a valid services agreement executed and must have been assigned by the Talent team to a specific requisition. Any resume submitted outside of this process will be deemed the sole property of DriveWealth. In the event a candidate submitted outside of this policy is hired, no fee or payment will be paid.
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What We Do
Over the past ten years, DriveWealth has been breaking down the barriers between global investors and U.S. markets and improving the financial lives of people that have been traditionally underserved and underbanked. We’ve built patent-pending technology to fractionalize US equities and were the first to receive a license to do so in 2015.
Why Work With Us
DriveWealth is growing quickly, and we need your help! This year we plan to getting close to doubling our headcount. We've raised over $100M so far from seasoned fin-tech investors Route 66, Point 72, and Raptor.
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