What You'll Do
- Work cross-functionally with teams ranging from trade desks, quants, product managers, risk management and compliance to support and enhance the trading system.
- Lead the technical design and delivery of greenfield Java projects using cutting-edge technology and modern best practices.
- Analyze engine latency and throughput to squeeze out performance in various scenarios.
- Monitor production systems and analyze rich data sets to troubleshoot issues and resolve promptly.
- Deliver solutions for global partners across Fixed Income, Options, and Equities asset classes
You Bring
- Experience in brokerage, trading, fintech, e-commerce
- Experience with Fixed Income and Options asset classes
- Experience deploying applications within AWS
- Java fundamentals, data structures and best practices for modern software development
- 5+ years of experience with low latency, high throughput distributed systems
- Experience with multithreading and concurrency in Java
- Understanding of Java Garbage Collection
- Must understand how to write effective unit and integration tests
- Strong communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Operating system and networking fundamentals
Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)
- Knowledge of message brokers and/or messaging libraries such as JMS, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Aeron or similar
- Experience with application containerization tools such as Docker or Podman
- Experience with FIX messaging protocol
- Experience with PostgreSQL database
- Experience with Linux shell scripting
Location
This role is open to candidates in the following locations:
New York, NY / Chicago, IL - Hybridย
- This role is expected to come into the office 2-3 days/week on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
- If you're not based in one of the locations listed above, this role is not a fit, and we cannot accommodate remote work outside these locations.
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Pay Range: $165,000 - $180,000 USD