Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

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

The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer will be a foundational contributor within our Core Trade engineering team. You'll be part of a dynamic, high-performing team building an ultra-high throughput, low-latency trading system and the tools required to run it, all aimed at democratizing investing globally.

We are looking for an engineer who values simplicity over complexity, both in architecture and communication. You'll be leading the charge with modern technologies and AI-assisted development workflows to scale our mission-critical trading stack for hyper-scale growth. You'll be highly autonomous and hands-on, working cross-functionally across engineering teams and collaborating directly with the business, Quants, stakeholders, and Trade Desk users.

As a Senior Engineer, you should bring clear communication, collaborative problem-solving, and a genuine drive to build resilient, high-performance systems for best-in-class trade desk applications. You will design and champion human-in-the-loop development practices to maximize team velocity without sacrificing our uncompromising standard for highly available, scalable architecture.

What You'll Do

* Technical Leadership & Delivery:
Own the technical design, architecture, and delivery of complex React/Type Script front-end and Java back-end features from inception to production.

* Architectural Excellence:
Drive architectural best practices, ensuring solutions are highly secure, scalable, and resilient.

* Mentorship:
Act as a force multiplier for the team. Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, lead code reviews, and elevate the overall technical bar of the organization.

* AI-Driven Velocity:
Pioneer our use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate coding, testing, and documentation, setting the standard for secure and effective AI integration in our workflows.

* Human-in-the-Loop:
Architect workflows that seamlessly blend automated decision-making and high-throughput data processing with human-in-the-loop validation for our trade desks and operational teams.

* Drive Strategy:
Partner horizontally with key stakeholders including Trade Desks, Quants, Product Managers, and other engineering leads to translate complex business goals into robust technical execution.

* Goal Setting:
Define bold, measurable technical goals for your projects and collaborate with leadership to hit broader organizational targets.

What You'll Need

* 5+ years of software development experience with deep expertise in Type Script, modern JavaScript (ES8+), Java, React, Web Sockets, or similar technologies for complex, real-time data streaming, and Browser API and standards.

* System Design and Architecture at Scale:
Proven track record of designing, building, and owning highly available architectures at scale.

* AI Tooling:
Strong familiarity with modern AI coding assistants and a demonstrated ability to leverage them to improve developer productivity safely.

* Testing Champion:
Deep understanding of, and advocacy for, rigorous testing standards, including unit testing (React Testing Library) and E2E testing (Playwright, Cypress).

* Communication:
Exceptional verbal and technical writing skills. You must be able to distill complex architectural concepts and designs into clear, understandable language for both engineering peers and business stakeholders.

* Problem Solving: A detail and results-oriented mindset with elite analytical abilities and a bias toward action.

This role is open to candidates in the following locations:

New York City Metro: 3 days/week in-office

Pay Range: $155,000 USD - $175,000 USD

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in U.S.

-Drive…