Senior Software Engineer, DriveWealth

Core Trade

$185-200k

Docker
Java
Kafka
Postgres
Senior level
New York

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DriveWealth

Cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure

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DriveWealth

Cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure

201-500 employees

FintechB2BInvestingAPICloud Computing

Job no longer available

$185-200k

Docker
Java
Kafka
Postgres
Senior level
New York

More information about location

201-500 employees

FintechB2BInvestingAPICloud Computing

Company mission

DriveWealth’s mission is to make investing accessible to anyone, anywhere.

Role

Who you are

  • The proper candidate will have experience building applications and working in a highly-available and scalable environment
  • We seek someone who has exceptional attention to detail and values simplicity over complexity in code and communication
  • You will confidently express your opinions about what you create while providing constructive feedback on things you haven't
  • Java fundamentals, data structures, and best practices for modern software development
  • 5+ years of experience with low latency, high throughput message based systems
  • Experience with multithreading and concurrency in Java
  • Understanding of Java Garbage Collection
  • Must understand how to write effective unit and integration tests

Desirable

  • Experience in brokerage, trading, fintech, e-commerce
  • Knowledge of message brokers and/or messaging libraries such as JMS, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Aeron or similar
  • Experience with application containerization tools such as Docker or Podman
  • Experience with FIX messaging protocol
  • Experience with PostgreSQL database
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services

What the job involves

  • We seek enthusiastic professionals to contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform
  • The Senior Software Engineer will work on our CoreTrade and DriveWealth Institutional teams
  • You’ll build an ultra-low latency, high throughput trading system and the tools to run and democratize investing globally!
  • You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies to re-engineer our mission-critical trading stack to be industrial-grade
  • We aim to utilize our fintech prowess and our exchange memberships to deliver internet-scale trading applications to the floor of the exchanges
  • Work cross-functionally with teams ranging from trade desks, Quants, product managers, risk management, and compliance
  • Lead the technical design and delivery of new Java projects using cutting-edge technology
  • Work with the Broker-Dealer Operations teams to support and enhance the trading system
  • Set goals with your team, and collaborate in setting organizational goals

Our take

Robo-advisory products and fractional share trading has resulted in the investment industry attracting a wider audience than before, and infrastructure for the fintech industry needed a redesign to reflect this.

DriveWealth develops APIs for over 100 global fintechs, challenger banks, and digital wallets, providing infrastructure for robo-advisory and fractional share trading. It works with its partners to offer retail investors access to US markets, innovative stock reward programs for loyal customers, and more. DriveWealth's partners include Revolut, MoneyLion, and Hemista, among others.

DriveWealth’s ultimate goal is to provide tools for companies to produce investment tools that are accessible and convenient for all.

DriveWealth is focused on strengthening its technology stack, making strategic acquisitions, and growing the organization through hiring as it scales its business.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-9% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Aug 2021

$450m

SERIES D

Oct 2020

$56.7m

SERIES C

Total funding: $552.8m

Company benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Access to FSAs & HSAs
  • Short term & long term disability
  • Paid time off, including holidays
  • Flexible working hours
  • Work from home opportunities
  • 401k
  • Stock options
  • Access to continuing education courses & conference reimbursements

Company values

  • We work as a team
  • We are bold
  • We iterate quickly
  • We are customer-obsessed
  • We take pride in what we do

Company HQ

Colgate Center, Jersey City, NJ

Founders

Co-founded FX Solutions (acquired by Francisco Partners) in 2001 & served as CEO for 9 years. Co-founded End-to-End Technology Projects in 2008.

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