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 Director of Engineering, Core Trade will work with our core trade engineering team, and lead API endpoints that feed the trading systems. The proper candidate will have experience building Java applications and working in a highly available, scalable, low-latency, and high-throughput environment. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies to re-engineer our mission-critical trading stack to be industrial-grade. Deep expertise with AWS tooling is critical, including designing institutional-grade gateways ensuring redundancy, high throughput, and reliability in production. We seek someone who has exceptional attention to detail and values simplicity over complexity in code and communication. You’ll work directly with the business, Product and vendors. You should be opinionated about what you build and offer constructive criticism on things you didn’t. You’ll be able to think quickly and critically in understanding cross-impacts and solving difficult problems in real-time.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of mission critical API endpoints
- Collaborate closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, Architects, DevOps, and cross-functional groups to translate business requirements into technical solutions that meets DriveWealth’s architectural standards for scale, redundancy, and resiliency
- Write easy-to-understand technical documentation for implementing mission-critical complicated business projects
- Ensure that solutions are meeting DriveWealth's best practices in design and architecture
- Develop enhancements to existing Java applications as well as build new applications from the ground up
- Monitor production systems, troubleshoot issues, and assist in remediation fixes
- Work with the Broker-Dealer Operations teams to support and enhance the trading system
- Manage a small team of Engineers, including prioritizing team resources to meet DW deliverables on schedule
- Owns one or more small to medium-sized Projects/Applications
- Manages and collaborates across teams on project priorities and coordinates deliverables"
What You’ll Need
- Experience with low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems
- Experience with multithreading and concurrency in Java
- Expertise working with the FIX protocol
- Strong knowledge of Java fundamentals, data structures, and best practices for modern software development
- Must understand how to write effective unit and integration tests
- Experience with a 24x7, highly-available, architecture
- Advanced technical writing skills
- Strong communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with Python scripting for the automation of tasks
- Experience supporting multiple complicated trading stacks
- An understanding of “what good looks like” based on your prior experience
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor an employment Visa at this time.
Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Rqequired)
- Experience working with React and Typescript
- Understanding of JMS and message brokers such as Kafka and ActiveMQ
- Experience with the FIX protocol
- Experience with Aeron or other point-to-point network communication
- Experience with POSTGRES database environments
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
Working at DriveWealth
Roles are based in the financial district of New York City. We operate in a hybrid in-office model 2-4 days per week, with specific schedules set by each functional leader to support collaboration, velocity, and client impact. While in the office, you will be provided a lunch stipend, opportunities to meet guest speakers, and work directly with decision makers.
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.
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health resources
- Generous paid time off with observed holidays (varies per country)
- Paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents
- Up to $2,500 or local equivalent each year to invest in continued education and personal development
- Up to $900 each year or local equivalent for fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Company-provided phone (varies by country)
- For HQ in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (US only)
- Employer 401K match (US only)
Benefit offerings vary based on country and are subject to change.
Equal Employment Opportunity
To build technology and products that are used and loved by people and solve real-world problems, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. 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 encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us at [email protected].
Agency Disclaimer
DriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other organization location. DriveWealth is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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DriveWealth Jersey City, New Jersey, USA Office
Located right across the water from NYC's financial district, our technology office is only one stop away from Manhattan.
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