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Principal Software Development Engineer, Post Trade

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listing for: DriveWealth
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-17
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Full Stack Developer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 250000 - 280000 USD Yearly USD 250000.00 280000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
About Us

Drive Wealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are 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. Drive Wealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options.

About Us

Drive Wealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are 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. Drive Wealth has evolved into a global platform offering trading of US equities, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income, and options. There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity.

Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!

About

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer to join our Post Trade Engineering team. As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of our brokerage systems. You will work closely with our engineering team and other stakeholders to create scalable, low latency, and highly available trading systems.

What You’ll Do
  • Responsible for the technical architecture, design and delivery of high performance, low-latency brokerage systems using Java
  • Assesses the health and performance of software applications and databases and provides software and technology solutions
  • Design, develop, and maintain REST APIs and microservices.
  • Work with the Broker Dealer Operations teams to support and enhance the trading and backend system for multiple asset classes like Equities, Options, Mutual Funds etc
  • Define specifications and develops components, modifies existing software stack, prepare test data, and prepares functional specifications
  • Analyze Service and application performance using various programming
  • languages, tools and techniques
  • Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team
  • Provide guidance to non-technical staff in using software and hardware systems most effectively and efficiently
  • Support applications with an understanding of system integration, test planning, scripting, and troubleshooting
You Bring
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
  • At least 10…
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