Software Development Engineer, DriveWealth
Partner Engineering
$150-175k
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Cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure
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Cloud-based, API-driven brokerage infrastructure
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-175k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make investing accessible to anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- At least 4-6 years of experience in backend software development using OOP/Functional principles. We use Java
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
- Experience in a good number of the following: Spring Boot, OpenAPI, messaging frameworks (AMQ, Kinesis, Kafka, etc.), distributed caching (Redis), DynamoDB (or similar), relational databases
- Experience in a cloud based microservices environment (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). We use AWS
- Experience with Git and Github
- A high bar for quality of code and work aggressively to eliminate unnecessary duplication and awkward workarounds
- Passionate for rigorous engineering practices and discipline: code reviews, automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc
- Exposure to systems architecture, with an understanding of design decisions and tradeoffs
- Excellent communication, both verbal and written
Desirable
- Experience with financial backend systems
- Experience with mentoring juniors
- Experience working on performance fine-tuning
What the job involves
- The Software Engineer in the Money Movement team works collaboratively with our engineers and business teams to build next generation features and enhancements to our API and Money Movement platforms to help our clients build innovative investing solutions at scale
- With DriveWealth at a growth inflection point, the opportunities of this role are two fold: Our growing volumes translate to interesting technical challenges you can work on related to scale, along with an opportunity to gain deeper knowledge of the money movement side of finance
- This role primarily involves hands-on software development as you grow to understand how we handle various money flows
- Hands-on software development as you grow to understand how we handle various money flows
- Strong collaboration with fellow team members to deliver items
- Building new systems and maintaining existing systems around money flow
- Working with vendor Banking-as-a-service APIs
- Curiosity of real-world money workflows in the banking industry, and working towards automation of much of our manual operational processes
- Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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
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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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