Senior Director, Core Trade Engineering

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 Senior Director of Engineering, Core Trade will work with our core trading engineering team and lead the OMS applications. 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 the FIX protocol is critical, including designing institutional-grade FIX gateways, engines, and parsers, and 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, quants, our trade desk, 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.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of OMS trading applications
• Collaborate closely with trading teams, product, quants, 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 DriveWealth deliverables on schedule
• Own one or more small to medium-sized projects/applications
• Manage and collaborate across teams on project priorities and coordinates deliverables

What You'll Need

• 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 Have, Not Required:

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

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Compensation
Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.

Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.

New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay Range$275,000—$325,000 USD

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)
• Hybrid work experience that allows for flexibility
• 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. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

TO ALL AGENCIES: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of DriveWealth outside of the Talent organization. DriveWealth’s policy is to only accept resumes from agencies via Greenhouse (ATS). Agencies must have a valid services agreement executed and must have been assigned by the Talent team to a specific requisition. Any resume submitted outside of this process will be deemed the sole property of DriveWealth. In the event a candidate submitted outside of this policy is hired, no fee or payment will be paid.