Principal Software Development Engineer, Digital Assets & Web3

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 Principal Software Engineer to join our Web3 Engineering team and help build Drive Wealth's digital assets platform. This is a highly technical, individual contributor, hands-on role focused on developing the core services, transaction infrastructure, and blockchain connectivity layers that power digital asset products  will implement secure, high-throughput backend systems supporting wallet operations, asset transfers, transaction orchestration, service providers integrations, and blockchain interactions.

Working across distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and modern Web3 technologies, you will help shape a platform that bridges traditional financial services with digital assets.

What You'll Do

* Implementation design, develop, and operate core services for the Drive Wealth Web3 Platform (DW3).

* Build highly performant, fault-tolerant and secure distributed systems supporting digital asset transactions and crypto wallet operations.

* Develop API-first services integrating blockchain networks, service providers, and financial systems.

* Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and asynchronous messaging patterns.

* Build transaction orchestration, reconciliation, settlement, and asset movement workflows.

* Develop secure services leveraging cryptographic signatures, key management, and authentication controls embracing zero trust architecture principles.

* Maintain and produce technical documentation and testing frameworks within CI/CD pipelines.

* Improve platform observability through metrics, tracing, logging, and Open Telemetry instrumentation.

* Optimize application performance, resiliency, scalability, and operational efficiency.

* Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, technical leadership, and delivery best practices.

What You'll Need

* 8+ years of software engineering experience building production systems in regulated financial environments following enterprise-grade and best practices.

* Extensive hands-on experience with Type Script, Java, JavaScript, Spring Boot, Node.js, and NestJS.

* Experience building Web3 platforms, wallet infrastructure, or blockchain-integrated applications. Proven experience using Web
3.js, Ethers.js, WebJ, and blockchain SDKs.

* First-hand experience delivering highly available, strong consistency and high-throughput distributed applications ong expertise in concurrent, multi-threaded, and asynchronous programming.

* Deep understanding of API-first architectures, microservices, and distributed systems design.

* Strong experience with Apache Kafka, event streaming, and asynchronous processing patterns. Understand pub/sub and production-consumer messaging patterns.

* Experience building and operating resilient, scalable and secure cloud-native applications.

* Expertise implementing REST APIs, service contracts, and integration frameworks.

* Experience implementing cryptographic signatures, and secure communications between services.

* Experience and familiarity with AI-assisted development and AI tools.

* Hands-on experience with Open Telemetry, observability platforms, and production monitoring.

* Strong understanding of CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops , software security, and secure SDLC practices.

* Strong commitment to engineering quality practices including automated testing, CI/CD validation, code reviews, and test-driven development methodologies.

* Experience developing and maintaining automated unit, integration, and functional testing frameworks within CI/CD pipelines.

* Strong technical writing skills with experience producing architecture documentation, API specifications, operational runbooks, and engineering standards.

* Proven experience…