Site Reliability Engineering Manager, DriveWealth
$160-180k
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Cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure
Open for applications
Cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$160-180k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make investing accessible to anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering or site reliability engineering
- 3+ years of proven leadership experience and the ability to manage teams
- Working knowledge of REST APIs and experience with JIRA Service Desk and Confluence
- Flexibility to cover and manage the on-call responsibility
- Expertise in incident and change management processes
- Knowledge of alerting and automation frameworks
- Develop and maintain KPI reporting metrics
- Availability for flexible work hours and willingness to cover US markets trading sessions
Desirable
- Strong background in technical cloud services, particularly AWS, including expertise with IAM, EC2, S3, and DynamoDB
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation
- Experience with job orchestrator/scheduler tools like Apache Airflow, Rundeck
- Experience maintaining and supporting containerized systems using Kubernetes and OpenShift
- Knowledge of Confluent Cloud for managing Kafka streams in a production environment
- Scripting capability in Python or similar languages
- Experience with SQL and transactional database querying
What the job involves
- As a Manager of Site Reliability Engineering based out of our NY HQ, you will oversee our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform's reliability and operational efficiency during critical end-of-day and start-of-day operations
- You will lead a team to help ensure seamless integration and continuous operational coverage across time zones
- Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team to enhance support workflows using ticketing systems and tools
- Manage and mentor a team of SREs, facilitating collaboration between internal product, engineering, and client-facing teams
- Oversee partner escalations and ensure operational stability, including monitoring partner channels, troubleshooting issues, and coordinating with partners on remediation
- Adhere to DriveWealth Incident Management Policy for the resolution and documentation with the engineering team for ongoing product improvements
- Oversee the entire incident response lifecycle
- Administer DriveWealth Change Management Policy to ensure minimal disruption to services
- Collaborate closely with the SRE team and other teams operating in the Eastern Standard Time zone to align on strategic initiatives and daily operations, ensuring adherence to global standards and practices. This includes monitoring critical operations outside conventional hours to support our global platform’s scalability and reliability
Our take
Robo-advisory products and fractional share trading have expanded the investment industry's reach, attracting a broader audience than ever before. This shift has necessitated a redesign of the fintech industry's infrastructure to support the growing demand for accessible and efficient investment options.
DriveWealth plays a pivotal role in this transformation by developing APIs that serve over 100 global fintechs, challenger banks, and digital wallets. Its infrastructure enables seamless robo-advisory services and fractional share trading, giving retail investors access to the US markets and offering innovative stock reward programs. Among its partners are notable companies like Revolut, MoneyLion, and Hemista.
As the company continues to grow, it remains focused on scaling its business by enhancing its technology stack, pursuing strategic acquisitions, and expanding its team. And is well on its way to its ultimate goal of providing tools that empower companies to create investment products that are both accessible and convenient for everyone.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$450m
SERIES D
Oct 2020
$56.7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $552.8m
Company benefits
- Health & wellness packages: We’ve built our benefits offering as a holistic package. We provide multiple health insurance carrier options and plans (medical, dental, vision) with access to HSA and/or FSA tax savings tools. We also provide income protection including life insurance, AD&D, short- and long-term disability, as well as extended coverage resources such as fertility benefits and mental wellness resources
- Vacation & time off: To build a successful organization, employees need time away to rest and recharge, so we provide paid time off including paid holidays and unlimited vacation time. We also strongly believe in work-life balance and, therefore, offer fully remote and hybrid work positions based on role requirements
- Professional developmnet: We believe one of the greatest contributions we can make is investing in our employees’ professional development. Therefore, we offer financial support toward continuing education courses, academic coursework, professional conferences, earning professional certifications, and membership fees to professional organizations
Company HQ
Colgate Center, Jersey City, NJ
Leadership
Robert S. Cortright
(Founder)Co-founded FX Solutions (acquired by Francisco Partners) in 2001 and served as CEo for 9 years. They also co-founded En-to-End Technology Projects in 2008.
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