Senior Software Engineer, Core Trade
About the role
DriveWealth is a global B2B financial technology organization dedicated to democratizing access to financial independence. We provide a modern, extensible trading platform for our partners, enabling them to offer seamless investing and trading experiences to clients worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with teams ranging from trade desks, quants, product managers, risk management and compliance to support and enhance the trading system.
- Lead the technical design and delivery of greenfield Java projects using cutting-edge technology and modern best practices.
- Analyze engine latency and throughput to squeeze out performance in various scenarios.
- Maintain and monitor production systems, analyzing rich data sets to troubleshoot issues and resolve promptly.
- Deliver solutions for global partners across Fixed Income, Options, and Equities asset classes.
Requirements
- Experience in brokerage, trading, fintech, e-commerce
- Experience with Fixed Income and Options asset classes
- Experience deploying applications within AWS
- Java fundamentals, data structures and best practices for modern software development
- 5+ years of experience with low latency, high throughput distributed systems
- Experience with multithreading and concurrency in Java
- Understanding of Java Garbage Collection
- Must understand how to write effective unit and integration tests
- Strong communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Operating system and networking fundamentals
Qualifications
- Nice to have but not required:
- 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 Linux shell scripting
Benefits
This role is open to candidates in the following locations: New York, NY / Chicago, IL - Hybrid. The role is expected to come into the office 2-3 days/week on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team. 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
The pay range for this role is $165,000 – $180,000 USD.
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.
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 based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.