Senior Software Development Engineer, Cash & Liquidity

DriveWealth Holdings, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Cash & Liquidity Management team. This role offers the chance to tackle exciting technical challenges while contributing to innovative money movement solutions. You will engage in hands-on software development, collaborate with internal stakeholders, and design new systems that enhance operational efficiency. If you have a passion for backend development and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you to make a significant impact in the financial technology space.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend software development experience, primarily in Java.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and integration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance systems for money flows and liquidity management.
• Collaborate with teams to architect and design new systems.

Skills

Java

OOP/Functional programming

RESTful APIs

Spring Boot

Kotlin

Scala

Cloud-based microservices

Git

Automated testing

Communication skills

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Redis

DynamoDB

Postgres

K8s

GitHub

Job description

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer on the Cash & Liquidity Management team works collaboratively with technology and business teams to build next-generation features and enhancements for our API and money movement platforms and help our clients build innovative investing solutions at scale.

With DriveWealth at a growth inflection point, the opportunities for this role are twofold: our growing volumes translate to interesting technical challenges related to scale. There is also an opportunity to gain knowledge of the money movement side of finance.

What You'll Do

• Hands-on software development as you grow to understand how we handle various money flows
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders
• Work with the Cash & Liquidity Management team to architect and design new systems
• Maintain and enhance existing systems
• Work with vendor banking-as-a-service APIs
• Deeply understand real-world money movement workflows in the banking industry and automate manual operational processes

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years of experience in backend software development using OOP/Functional principles in Java. Other languages in the JVM platform, such as Kotlin or Scala are also acceptable
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Experience in a good number of the following: Spring Boot, OpenAPI, message queuing frameworks (AMQ, Kinesis, SQS, Kafka, etc.), distributed caching (we use Redis), DynamoDB (or similar), Postgres (or similar)
• Active development experience in a cloud-based microservices environment (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Experience with compute/container platforms such as AWS EC2, K8s is highly preferred
• Experience with Git and Github, gitflow and git actions
• A high bar for code quality and work to eliminate unnecessary duplication and awkward workarounds.
• Discipline in writing well-formatted code, engaging in code reviews
• Automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.
• Understanding of software systems architecture, tradeoffs, and collaborating design ideas
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written

Nice to Have, Not Required

• Experience with financial backend systems
• Experience with mentoring
• Experience working on performance fine-tuning

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.