Senior Software Engineer, Core Trade
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Overview
Job Description
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on our Execution Services team. You'll build an ultra-low latency, high throughput trading system and accompanying tools that power millions of trades a day! You'll work with cutting-edge technologies to build and improve our mission-critical institutional grade trading engine.
The ideal candidate will have experience building backend applications with a focus on highly-availability and scalability. We are seeking someone who has exceptional attention to detail and values simplicity over complexity in code and communication. We value people who can confidently express their opinions about what they create while providing constructive feedback on things they haven't.
What You'll Do
- Work cross-functionally with teams ranging from trade desks, quants, product managers, risk management and compliance to support and enhance the trading system.
- Lead the technical design and delivery of greenfield Java projects using cutting-edge technology and modern best practices.
- Analyze engine latency and throughput to squeeze out performance in various scenarios.
- Monitor production systems and analyze rich data sets to troubleshoot issues and resolve promptly.
What You'll Need
- Java fundamentals, data structures and best practices for modern software development
- 5+ years of experience with low latency, high throughput distributed systems
- Experience with multithreading and concurrency in Java
- Understanding of Java Garbage Collection
- Must understand how to write effective unit and integration tests
- Strong communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Operating system and networking fundamentals
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 Required)
- Experience in brokerage, trading, fintech, e-commerce
- Knowledge of message brokers and/or messaging libraries such as JMS, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Aeron or similar
- Experience with application containerization tools such as Docker or Podman
- Experience with FIX messaging protocol
- Experience with PostgreSQL database
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
- Experience with Linux shell scripting
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