Senior Software Development Engineer, Cash & Liquidity

About the role

Join the Cash & Liquidity Management team to develop and enhance API and money movement platforms. This role offers significant growth opportunities as DriveWealth scales, presenting complex technical challenges and a chance to deepen your understanding of financial money movement. You will contribute to building innovative investing solutions for clients.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Perform hands-on software development to understand various money flows
• Collaborate with internal business and technology teams
• Design and architect new systems for the Cash & Liquidity Management team
• Maintain and improve existing systems
• Integrate with vendor banking-as-a-service APIs
• Gain a deep understanding of banking industry money movement workflows and automate manual processes

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend software development experience using OOP/Functional principles in Java, Kotlin, or Scala
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with several of the following: Spring Boot, OpenAPI, message queuing frameworks (AMQ, Kinesis, SQS, Kafka), distributed caching (Redis), DynamoDB (or similar), Postgres (or similar)
• Active development experience in a cloud-based microservices environment (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with Git and Github, including gitflow and git actions
• Commitment to high code quality, eliminating duplication and awkward workarounds
• Discipline in writing well-formatted code and participating in code reviews
• Experience with automated testing, logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Understanding of software systems architecture, tradeoffs, and collaborative design
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with financial backend systems
• Mentoring experience
• Experience with performance fine-tuning
• Reside in the EST timezone

Skills & tools

• Java, Kotlin, Scala
• OOP/Functional principles
• RESTful APIs
• Spring Boot
• OpenAPI
• AMQ, Kinesis, SQS, Kafka
• Redis
• DynamoDB
• Postgres
• AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
• AWS EC2, K8s
• Git, Github, gitflow, git actions

Practical notes

• This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence in New York, NY, on a cadence set by the hiring manager/team.
• 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.
• Compensation includes base salary, bonus, equity, 401(k) match, and subsidized benefits like medical, dental, vision, disability, paid parental leave, wellness reimbursement, company phone, and personal development allowance.
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and observed holidays are provided.