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
The Director of Engineering - Core Trade will work with our core trade engineering team, and lead API endpoints that feed the trading systems. The proper candidate will have experience building Java applications and working in a highly available, scalable, low-latency, and high-throughput environment. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies to re-engineer our mission-critical trading stack to be industrial-grade. Deep expertise with AWS tooling is critical, including designing institutional-grade gateways ensuring redundancy, high throughput, and reliability in production. We seek someone who has exceptional attention to detail and values simplicity over complexity in code and communication. You’ll work directly with the business, Product and vendors. You should be opinionated about what you build and offer constructive criticism on things you didn’t. You’ll be able to think quickly and critically in understanding cross-impacts and solving difficult problems in real-time.
What You’ll Do
What You’ll Need
Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Rqequired)
Working at DriveWealth
Roles are based in the financial district of New York City. We operate in a hybrid in-office model 2-4 days per week, with specific schedules set by each functional leader to support collaboration, velocity, and client impact. While in the office, you will be provided a lunch stipend, opportunities to meet guest speakers, and work directly with decision makers.
Compensation
Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.
Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
Benefits
Benefit offerings vary based on country and are subject to change.
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 on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us at recruiting@drivewealth.com.
Agency Disclaimer
DriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other organization location. DriveWealth is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.