Director of Engineering - Core Trade

DriveWealth•New York, NY

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Experience working with React and Typescript
Understanding of JMS and message brokers such as Kafka and ActiveMQ
Experience with the FIX protocol
Experience with Aeron or other point-to-point network communication
Experience with POSTGRES database environments
Experience with Amazon Web Services

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of mission critical API endpoints
Collaborate closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, Architects, DevOps, and cross-functional groups to translate business requirements into technical solutions that meets DriveWealth’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 DriveWealth'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

Benefits

Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options
Mental health resources
Generous paid time off with observed holidays (varies per country)
Paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents
Up to $2,500 or local equivalent each year to invest in continued education and personal development
Up to $900 each year or local equivalent for fitness and wellness reimbursement
Company-provided phone (varies by country)
For HQ in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District
Pre-tax commuter benefits (US only)
Employer 401K match (US only)
Benefit offerings vary based on country and are subject to change.