Senior Software Development Engineer, Post Trade

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.

Location

This role is open to candidates in the following locations: Hyderabad, IN

- This role is expected to come into the office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
- If you're not based in one of the locations listed above, this role is not a fit, and we cannot accommodate remote work outside these locations.

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 on a hybrid schedule. 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.

To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match. We also offer Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Disability insurance, and Paid Parental Leave, along with a wellness reimbursement, a company-provided phone, and a personal development allowance. Finally, we value the time you spend away from the office with generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and observed holidays.

How We Think About AI

We leverage AI to work smarter and move faster. We seek AI-curious talent who are proactive about using emerging tools to increase signal quality, reduce friction, and improve outcomes to deliver products faster, provide better service to our partners, and to streamline processes. Your ability to leverage our internal tools and technology to drive results is as important to us as your core domain expertise.

Compensation

Pay is generally based on the level, complexity, responsibility, location, and job duties/requirements of the specific position. We then source candidates with the requisite skills, expertise, education, training, and experience. If you are selected for an interview, please feel welcome to speak to a recruiter about our compensation philosophy and other available benefits. This role is eligible for base, bonus, equity, 401(k) match, and heavily subsidized benefits and perks.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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.; Proficient in developing and maintaining robust REST APIs and implementing sophisticated event-driven architectures using Kafka, deployed on Kubernetes.; Capital Markets or financial technology background (required), with a focus on the trade lifecycle.; Experience with Jira, Git, and shell scripting(writing scripts to extract and transform data); Proficient in NoSQL, SQL, and stored procedures, such as in PostgreSQL and MySQL; Understanding of Test-Driven Development and how to write effective unit and integration tests; Working knowledge of CI/CD tools and practices, such as JFrog Artifactory, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation etc; Experience with a 24/7, highly available architecture; Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (required); Experience with Scrum and other Agile processes; Strong analytical,communication and problem-solving skills