Senior Software Development Engineer, Cash & Liquidity
DriveWealthAbout the role
About Us
DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are 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.
There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!
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.
Working at DriveWealth
We do our best work when we’re in the same room. To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York, Chicago, and Lithuania teams work in-office 4 days a week. We’ve found that being physically side-by-side is the only way to solve complex problems in real-time and stay truly accountable to the products we ship. When you’re here, you’re working directly with the people making the decisions. To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match. We also offer full insurance coverage, a wellness reimbursement, a company-provided phone, and a personal development allowance. Finally, we value the time you spend away from the office with generous PTO, observed holidays, and extended leave.
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