DriveWealth 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. DriveWealth 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!
About the Role:
Our Brokerage Platform powers critical operations, from processing incoming order traffic to managing post-trade workflows like clearing and settlements. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the engineering team(s), combining hands-on expertise with people management to deliver robust, scalable, and high-performance systems. This role requires balancing people leadership with technical know-how, providing mentorship, solving complex problems, and driving the successful delivery of mission-critical solutions. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring back office platforms reliability, availability, and alignment with strategic goals in a highly regulated financial environment.
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead and shape the future of our brokerage platform while mentoring talented engineers and solving critical challenges. This role offers the opportunity to combine leadership with hands-on contributions, crafting resilient, high-performance solutions that support our company’s long-term vision. If you’re passionate about innovation, collaboration, and building world-class systems, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact.
What You'll Do:
- Lead and manage a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical roadmaps that align with business goals, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions
- Actively participate in problem-solving and decision-making, offering hands-on technical expertise as needed
- Oversee the design and delivery of scalable, resilient systems capable of handling high throughput, low-latency transactions, and 24x7 availability
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement within the engineering team
- Drive the adoption of best practices in code quality, code coverage, architecture, testing automation, and operational excellence
- Design and implement automation frameworks for testing and deployments to improve development velocity and system reliability
- Collaborate across teams to ensure functional and operational requirements are met in both cloud-native and on-premises environments
- Champion non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, security, and disaster recovery
- Manage production environments, ensuring systems are fault-tolerant, self-healing, and designed for operational efficiency
- Ensure adherence to industry security, compliance, and privacy standards critical to the financial services domain
What You'll Need:
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, including a track record of managing and mentoring teams
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and drive teams toward achieving business and technical goals
- Hands-on expertise in architecting and building high-availability, scalable systems with an understanding of fault tolerance and disaster recovery
- Proficiency in modern development practices, including microservices architecture, API-driven design, and event-driven systems
- Deep understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms like AWS (e.g., EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda)
- Solid experience with database technologies, both SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra, DynamoDB)
- Proven track record in implementing CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and ensuring high-quality software releases
- Strong understanding of operational excellence, including monitoring, logging, and incident management
- Excellent communication skills to articulate ideas effectively to technical teams and business stakeholders
- A passion for solving complex problems, mentoring teams, and driving innovation.
Nice to Have, But Not Required:
- Familiarity with advanced architectural patterns and event-driven designs.
- Expertise in cost optimization and modernizing legacy systems within capital markets.
- Experience with managing brokerage books and records, clearing, settlements or DTCC
- Prior experience with Agile frameworks like SAFE
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Compensation
Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.
Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay Range
$190,000—$220,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental Health and family planning services
- Unlimited paid time off with ten observed holidays
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- $2,500 each year to invest in continued education and personal development
- $75 a month in fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Company-provided phone
- Hybrid work experience that allows for flexibility
- For in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District
*The benefits outlined above are for US employees, benefit offerings vary based on location
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
TO ALL AGENCIES: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of DriveWealth outside of the Talent organization. DriveWealth’s policy is to only accept resumes from agencies via Greenhouse (ATS). Agencies must have a valid services agreement executed and must have been assigned by the Talent team to a specific requisition. Any resume submitted outside of this process will be deemed the sole property of DriveWealth. In the event a candidate submitted outside of this policy is hired, no fee or payment will be paid.
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What We Do
Over the past ten years, DriveWealth has been breaking down the barriers between global investors and U.S. markets and improving the financial lives of people that have been traditionally underserved and underbanked. We’ve built patent-pending technology to fractionalize US equities and were the first to receive a license to do so in 2015.
Why Work With Us
DriveWealth is growing quickly, and we need your help! This year we plan to getting close to doubling our headcount. We've raised over $100M so far from seasoned fin-tech investors Route 66, Point 72, and Raptor.
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