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Principal Software Development Engineer

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drivewealth logoDrivewealth · New York, NY
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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! DriveWealth is a global fintech infrastructure company delivering investing and financial services through its API-first Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. Our technology powers banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, fintechs, digital wallets, and some of the world's leading super-apps and trading platforms. Operating across North America, Latin America, EMEA, and APAC, DriveWealth processes more than 9 million transactions daily through highly resilient, low-latency distributed systems. As we expand into digital assets and blockchain infrastructure, we are building the next generation of secure, scalable financial platforms for global markets. As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will work on our Execution Services Engineering team . 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. The candidate will have experience building applications and working in a highly-available and scalable environment, including working with REST APIs and Market Data. 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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

  • 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
  • Knowledge of Jira, Git, Jenkins
  • Experience with a 24x7, highly-available architecture
  • Strong experience with Amazon Web Services
  • Experience with Scrum and other Agile processes
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)
  • Experience with Amazon

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