About Us

DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe access to financial markets shouldn’t be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. Our API-based platform empowers partners to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide, with US equities, ETFs, mutual funds, fixed income, options, and fractional shares.

Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the stability and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while holding ourselves to institutional-grade execution and compliance. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer to join our Post Trade Engineering team. As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of our brokerage systems. You will work closely with our engineering team and other stakeholders to create scalable, low latency, and highly available trading systems.

What You’ll Do

Responsible for the technical architecture, design and delivery of high performance, low-latency brokerage systems using Java

Assesses the health and performance of software applications and databases and provides software and technology solutions

Design, develop, and maintain REST APIs and microservices.

Work with the Broker Dealer Operations teams to support and enhance the trading and backend system for multiple asset classes like Equities, Options, Mutual Funds etc

Define specifications and develops components, modifies existing software stack, prepare test data, and prepares functional specifications

Analyze Service and application performance using various programming

languages, tools and techniques

Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team

Provide guidance to non-technical staff in using software and hardware systems most effectively and efficiently

Support applications with an understanding of system integration, test planning, scripting, and troubleshooting

You Bring

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

At least 10 years of experience in Software Engineering with expertise in Java

Must understand Test Driven Development and how to write effective unit/integration tests

Strong understanding of CI/CD and automated testing frameworks

Proficient in developing and maintaining robust REST APIs and implementing sophisticated event-driven architectures with Kafka and Kubernetes

Background in financial technology or capital markets is required

Proficient in No SQL, SQL and Stored Procedures such as in Postgres, MySQL

Experience with Unix, Linux Operating Systems (writing scripts to extract and transform data)

Knowledge of Jira, Git, Jenkins

Experience with a 24x7, highly-available architecture

Strong experience with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure

Experience with Scrum and other Agile processes

Strong communication skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)

Multiple years experience in fin-tech specifically Post Trade, Payment or SaaS

Location

This role is open to candidates in the following locations: Chicago, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Miami, San Francisco Bay Area, or Seattle.

If based Chicago: This role is expected to come into the office 3 days a week on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.

If based in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Miami, San Francisco, or Seattle: This is a fully remote role, though you may need to visit our onsite offices from time to time.

If you're not based in one of the locations listed above, this role is not a fit, and we cannot accommodate remote work outside these locations.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Pay Range: $250,000 – $280,000

Principal Software Development Engineer, Post Trade