Senior Software Development Engineer, Cash & Liquidity

Compensation: $155k – $175k

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer on the Cash & Liquidity Management team works collaboratively with technology and business teams to build next-generation features and enhancements for our API and money movement platforms and help our clients build innovative investing solutions at scale.

With DriveWealth at a growth inflection point, the opportunities for this role are twofold: our growing volumes translate to interesting technical challenges related to scale. There is also an opportunity to gain knowledge of the money movement side of finance.

What You'll Do

• Hands-on software development as you grow to understand how we handle various money flows
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders
• Work with the Cash & Liquidity Management team to architect and design new systems
• Maintain and enhance existing systems
• Work with vendor banking-as-a-service APIs
• Deeply understand real-world money movement workflows in the banking industry and automate manual operational processes

You Bring

• 7+ years of experience in backend software development using OOP/Functional principles in Java. Other languages in the JVM platform, such as Kotlin or Scala are also acceptable
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Experience in a good number of the following: Spring Boot, OpenAPI, message queuing frameworks (AMQ, Kinesis, SQS, Kafka, etc.), distributed caching (we use Redis), DynamoDB (or similar), Postgres (or similar)
• Active development experience in a cloud-based microservices environment (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with compute/container platforms such as AWS EC2, K8s is highly preferred
• Experience with Git and Github, gitflow and git actions
• A high bar for code quality and work to eliminate unnecessary duplication and awkward workarounds.
• Discipline in writing well-formatted code, engaging in code reviews
• Automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.
• Understanding of software systems architecture, tradeoffs, and collaborating design ideas
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written

Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)

• Experience with financial backend systems
• Experience with mentoring
• Experience working on performance fine-tuning
• Reside in EST timezone

Location

This role is open to candidates in the following locations:
New York, NY - Hybrid

• 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.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Pay Range: $155,000 – $175,000 USD