Senior Software Engineer

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.

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 a