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 API Team is responsible for all external interactions with DriveWealth trading platform. You will learn from and contribute to a modern Java code base that is highly concurrent and in many places follows reactive style programming. Our jobs run in the cloud using many advanced AWS services. We still use some of the typical enterprise messaging services (Kafka/ActiveMQ), and caching technologies (Redis), etc.
The Engineer Manager on the offshore API team works collaboratively with our engineers in the New York office, and business teams to build next generation features and enhancements to our API platform to help our clients build innovative investing solutions at scale.
What You'll Do:
- Responsible for the technical design and delivery of new Java projects using modern, cutting-edge technology
- Develop enhancements to existing applications and build new applications from the ground up
- Monitor production systems, troubleshoot issues, and assist in remediation fixes
- Ownership of the bi-weekly release process including:
- Maintain a checklist of items that need to be crossed off for every release. Constantly improve upon the process and get RFC’s from other team members
- Manage communications internally and externally regarding different stages of the release
- Understand regression test patterns and track release milestones to identify any potential risks to delivery of products or to release schedules
- Understand of all release items going out in releases at a high level from jira tickets and product owners and over time build up knowledge regarding the intricacies of different systems and be able to sanity test them by building an extensive collection of queries
- Code review pull requests from peers and make technical evaluations of code and provide guidance to junior developers
- Work with the product, front-end, operations, and trading teams to support and enhance the APIs
What You'll Need:
- At least 6-8 years of experience in back-end software development using OOP/Functional principles
- Hands-on experience with Java preferred with working knowledge of Java 21/17/11/8 versions
- Expert understanding of AWS, RESTful API development, Spring Framework, and Java servlet containers
- Functional knowledge of Git, Maven, or similar CI/CD pipeline tools
- Experience operating in 24x7, highly-available architectures
- Deep understanding of NoSQL and SQL databases, and distributed caching environments
- Swagger, API versioning and writing/maintaining code for public facing API contracts
- Unit/Integration tests with Mockito/JUnit or a similar framework
- Understanding of JSON, JMS message types and Message Brokers like AMQ/Kafka
- Familiarity with Java 8 coding standards and best practices for application development
- Communication and problem solving skills to effectively communicate developments back and forth between onsite and offshore teams
- Proven experience and ability to mentor, lead, and manage a small team of engineers
Compensation: €6583-€7000 per month
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in Lithuania. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. Please note: this role may be expected to come into our office in Vilnius, Lithuania on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
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.
Lithuania pay range
€6.583—€7.000 EUR
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental Health and family planning services
- Unlimited paid time off with ten observed holidays
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- $2,500 each year to invest in continued education and personal development
- $75 a month in fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Company-provided phone
- Hybrid work experience that allows for flexibility
- For in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District
*The benefits outlined above are for US employees, benefit offerings vary based on location
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.
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What We Do
Over the past ten years, DriveWealth has been breaking down the barriers between global investors and U.S. markets and improving the financial lives of people that have been traditionally underserved and underbanked. We’ve built patent-pending technology to fractionalize US equities and were the first to receive a license to do so in 2015.
Why Work With Us
DriveWealth is growing quickly, and we need your help! This year we plan to getting close to doubling our headcount. We've raised over $100M so far from seasoned fin-tech investors Route 66, Point 72, and Raptor.
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