Engineering Manager, Core Platform Team

Drive Wealth is 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.

We seek enthusiastic professionals to contribute diverse perspectives and experiences to our Brokerage-as-a-Service platform. Our culture blends the pace and opportunity of a tech start-up with the impact, stability, and significance of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. We value diversity and inclusion, celebrating the unique differences of our employees as we scale and grow together.

We’re guided by operating principles grounded in accountability, teamwork, integrity, and solutions built to scale. Join us!

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Core Platform team within a mid-size fintech organization. The Platform Engineering team builds core engineering, frameworks, tooling and libraries that enable application teams to increase engineering velocity, improve developer experience, operate more reliably, and maintain consistent engineering standards across the company.

• Own the platform vision and multi‑quarter roadmap, aligned with company growth and engineering priorities
• Act as product owner for platform capabilities, translating developer pain points into scalable solutions
• Define success metrics for platform initiatives (e.g., adoption rate, reduction in build time, improved reliability)
• Balance investment between new platform capabilities, platform reliability, and support for consuming teams

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing team of platform engineers
• Establish clear expectations, goals, and career development paths for team members
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and customer (developer) empathy

• Drive predictable delivery of platform initiatives using agile practices
• Ensure platform work scales across multiple application teams without creating bottlenecks
• Manage technical tradeoffs between standardization and team autonomy

• Improve developer velocity through standardized libraries, service templates, CI/CD tooling, and testing frameworks
• Reduce cognitive load and duplication by promoting consistent patterns and best practices
• Define, implement, and enforce architectural standards, principles, and best practices across all engineering teams
• Champion developer experience by prioritizing usability, documentation, and self‑service capabilities
• Conduct architectural reviews and provide technical guidance to ensure solutions meet non‑functional requirements (scalability, performance, security, maintainability)
• Partner closely with application engineering teams to understand needs and remove friction
• Collaborate with Architecture, Dev Ops, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure platform solutions are secure, compliant, and scalable
• Communicate platform direction, priorities, and tradeoffs clearly to engineering leadership and stakeholders

• Lead the research and implementation of AI‑assisted foundational tools and frameworks for firm‑wide adoption.

• 8–12 years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management role
• Strong technical background in building platforms, shared services, or internal developer tooling
• Experience acting as a product owner or technical lead for internal platforms used by multiple teams
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with Java‑based platforms and modern CI/CD systems
• Experience working in…