Senior Software Development Engineer, Post Trade

About 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

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Post Trade Engineering team. In this role, you will lead 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

- Build new products and features while supporting and enhancing existing ones, owning the technical architecture, design, and delivery of high-performance, low-latency brokerage systems using Java

- Partner with Product and Operations to understand requirements, translate them into implementable technical features, and deliver them

- Design and build event-driven architectures using Kafka, packaged with Docker and deployed on Kubernetes

- Support production applications by triaging, troubleshooting, and resolving issues, drawing on an understanding of system integration, scripting, and test planning.

- Build observability, resilience, and recoverability into applications.

- Assess the health and performance of software applications and databases, and provide software and technology solutions

- Define specifications, develop components, modify the existing software stack, prepare test data, and prepare functional specifications

- Analyze service and application performance using various programming languages, tools, and techniques

You Bring

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

- At least 7 years of experience in Software Engineering with expertise in Java and spring framework.