Director of Engineering, Core Trade

Overview

Drive Wealth 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. Drive Wealth 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!

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.

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of mission critical API endpoints
• Collaborate closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, Architects, Dev Ops, and cross-functional groups to translate business requirements into technical solutions that meets Drive Wealth’s architectural standards for scale, redundancy, and resiliency
• Write easy-to-understand technical documentation for implementing mission-critical complicated business projects
• Ensure that solutions are meeting Drive Wealth's best practices in design and architecture
• Develop enhancements to existing Java applications as well as build new applications from the ground up
• Monitor production systems, troubleshoot issues, and assist in remediation fixes
• Work with the Broker-Dealer Operations teams to support and enhance the trading system
• Manage a small team of Engineers, including prioritizing team resources to meet DW deliverables on schedule
• Owns one or more small to medium-sized Projects/Applications
• Manages and collaborates across teams on project priorities and coordinates deliverables

• Experience with low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems
• Experience with multithreading and concurrency in Java
• Expertise working with the FIX protocol
• Strong knowledge of Java fundamentals, data structures, and best practices for modern software development
• Must understand how to write effective unit and integration tests
• Experience with a 24x7, highly-available, architecture
• Advanced technical writing skills
• Strong communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with Python scripting for the automation of tasks
• Experience supporting multiple complicated trading stacks
• An understanding of “what good looks like” based on your prior experience
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Drive Wealth is unable to sponsor an employment Visa at this…