Senior Software Engineer, Party & Account System

DriveWealth•New York, NY

2d•$155,000 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Java Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale the core systems that power brokerage account operations for DriveWealth's global institutional partners. This role is with DriveWealth's Party & Account System (PAS), the team responsible for customer onboarding, KYC and compliance workflows, brokerage account lifecycle management, and integrations with clearing, tax reporting, and regulatory systems. You will work closely with product managers, compliance, quantitative, and risk teams to translate complex regulatory and business requirements into robust, production-grade backend systems. These systems span a wide range of capabilities, including support for joint and retirement account types, tax form processing, domain event-driven workflows, and downstream clearing integrations with platforms such as FIS, DTCC and InteliClear. Build the account infrastructure that global institutional partners and millions of investors depend on every trading day.

Requirements

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in U.S.—DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Applicants must possess the legal right to work in the country where the position is located at the time of application.
DriveWealth requires all employees to provide original documentation verifying their work authorization on or before their first day of employment.
For US-based roles: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.
DriveWealth does not provide visa sponsorship or support for employment authorization, including transfers, at this time.
Offers of employment are strictly contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the Company.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with internal shared libraries, Maven multi-module repositories, and JFrog Artifactory.
Familiarity with LLMs, Agents, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and semantic search patterns.
Experience building AI-powered applications using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or Strands SDK.
Exposure to agentic AI architectures, including multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, workflow automation, memory management, and HITL approval pattern.
Familiarity with MCP, AI tool integrations, and API-driven agent ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Ensure Tier-1 API availability and meet SLA requirements (150 ms target ) across core services.
Design and deliver backend Java services for DriveWealth's Party & Account System (PAS)—the core platform that manages user registration, KYC workflows, and the full brokerage account lifecycle for global institutional partners.
Lead the technical design and implementation of new account types from API ingestion through validation, data storage, and event publishing.
Build and maintain REST services and Kafka-driven asynchronous processors that support account operations across equities, options, and fixed-income asset classes.
Own integrations with downstream clearing and reporting systems, including InteliClear (INTC/AOD), FIS, DTCC ACAT, and BetaNXT tax reporting.
Partner cross-functionally with quantitative, product, compliance, and risk teams to translate regulatory requirements (KYC, W-8/W-9 tax forms, FINRA rules) into precise, testable system behavior
Monitor production systems (EKS, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka) and diagnose latency, throughput, resiliency, and consistency issues across distributed asynchronous workflows.