Director Of Engineering, Core Trade

About the Role

The Director of Engineering, Core Trade will work with our core trade engineering team, and lead API endpoints that feed the trading systems. 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 AWS tooling is critical, including designing institutional-grade gateways 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 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 mission critical API endpoints
• Collaborate closely with Product, 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 DW deliverables on schedule
• Owns one or more small to medium-sized Projects/Applications
• Manages and collaborates 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

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

Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Rqequired)

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

Working at DriveWealth

Roles are based in the financial district of New York City. We operate in a hybrid in-office model 2-4 days per week, with specific schedules set by each functional leader to support collaboration, velocity, and client impact. While in the office, you will be provided a lunch stipend, opportunities to meet guest speakers, and work directly with decision makers.