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
The Senior Software Engineer on the Cash & Liquidity Management team works collaboratively with technology and business teams to build next-generation features and enhancements for our API and money movement platforms and help our clients build innovative investing solutions at scale.
With DriveWealth at a growth inflection point, the opportunities for this role are twofold: our growing volumes translate to interesting technical challenges related to scale. There is also an opportunity to gain knowledge of the money movement side of finance.
What You'll Do
- Hands-on software development as you grow to understand how we handle various money flows
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders
- Work with the Cash & Liquidity Management team to architect and design new systems
- Maintain and enhance existing systems
- Work with vendor banking-as-a-service APIs
- Deeply understand real-world money movement workflows in the banking industry and automate manual operational processes
What You’ll Need
- 7+ years of experience in backend software development using OOP/Functional principles in Java. Other languages in the JVM platform, such as Kotlin or Scala are also acceptable
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
- Experience in a good number of the following: Spring Boot, OpenAPI, message queuing frameworks (AMQ, Kinesis, SQS, Kafka, etc.), distributed caching (we use Redis), DynamoDB (or similar), Postgres (or similar)
- Active development experience in a cloud-based microservices environment (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Experience with compute/container platforms such as AWS EC2, K8s is highly preferred
- Experience with Git and Github, gitflow and git actions
- A high bar for code quality and work to eliminate unnecessary duplication and awkward workarounds.
- Discipline in writing well-formatted code, engaging in code reviews
- Automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.
- Understanding of software systems architecture, tradeoffs, and collaborating design ideas
- Excellent communication, both verbal and written
Nice to Have, Not Required
- Experience with financial backend systems
- Experience with mentoring
- Experience working on performance fine-tuning
- Reside in EST timezone
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.
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 based 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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