About Us
DriveWealth 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. DriveWealth 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!
We are seeking a Senior Quantitative Developer to join the team building a core, ultra-low-latency trading system. You will work on the pricing and order-handling logic that drives trading economics at scale. This is a hands-on engineering role embedded within a high-performance, deterministic trading system, working closely with traders, risk, and quant researchers to translate trading logic into production-grade, low-latency code.
- Design and implement pricing and order-handling logic within a low-latency, deterministic trading engine
- Work on order-lifecycle mechanics specific to trading economics
- Partner with quant researchers and trading desks to translate models and trading strategies into deterministic, testable production code
- Optimize critical-path logic to meet strict end-to-end latency targets
- Participate in system design discussions around state persistence and failover/recovery for a clustered, stateful engine
- Write comprehensive automated tests (unit and behavior-driven) to validate correctness of pricing and trading logic under a wide range of market scenarios
- Participate in code review, on-call rotation, and incident response for a production trading system
- Contribute to capacity planning and performance tuning as trading volumes grow
- 6+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time in a senior or lead capacity
- Strong background in quantitative or financial domains—pricing models, market microstructure, order matching, or trading systems
- Proven experience building and maintaining low-latency, high-throughput production systems
- Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization in a JVM-based language
- Experience designing for determinism and reproducibility in systems where correctness and auditability are critical
- Solid grounding in numerical precision and decimal/fixed-point arithmetic, particularly relevant to financial calculations
- Proficiency in quantitative data analysis using data frames or similar tabular tooling (e.g., pandas, Polars, R) for exploring, validating, and back-testing trading logic against historical data
- Strong testing discipline, including behavior-driven or scenario-based testing approaches for complex business logic
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to work directly with traders, risk managers, and quant researchers to clarify requirements
- Experience with distributed systems concepts—consensus/clustering, state replication, and failover
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Finance, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Direct experience working on or adjacent to a broker-dealer, exchange, ATS, or other regulated trading venue
- Familiarity with market data feeds, quote handling, and reference pricing sources
- Exposure to FIX protocol or other trading-industry messaging protocols
- Experience with event-sourced or snapshot-based state persistence and schema/data migration strategies
- Background in capital markets regulatory concepts (best execution, trade reporting, price improvement obligations)
- Experience with streaming/event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka) in a trading or financial context
- Familiarity with container/deployment tooling in regulated, latency-sensitive production environments
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a quantitative discipline
- Prior experience with proprietary or in-house trading platforms/frameworks
- Contributions to open-source performance-critical or financial-systems projects
Location
This role is open to candidates in the following locations: Chicago, IL - Hybrid
- This role is expected to come into the office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
- If you're not based in the location listed above, this role is not a fit, and we cannot accommodate remote work.
- 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: $220,000 – $240,000 USD
Working at DriveWealth
We do our best work when we're in the same room. To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York, Chicago, and Lithuania teams work in office on a hybrid schedule. We've found that being physically side-by-side is the only way to solve complex problems in real-time and stay truly accountable to the products we ship. When you're here, you're working directly with the people making the decisions.
To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match. We also offer Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Disability insurance, and Paid Parental Leave, along with a wellness reimbursement, a company-provided phone, and a personal development allowance. Finally, we value the time you spend away from the office with generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and observed holidays.
Work Authorization
Applicants must possess the legal right to work in the country where the position is located at the time of application. DriveWealth requires all employees to provide original documentation verifying their work authorization on or before their first day of employment.
For US-based roles: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship. DriveWealth does not provide visa sponsorship or support for employment authorization, including transfers, at this time. Offers of employment are strictly contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the Company.
How We Think About AI
We leverage AI to work smarter and move faster. We seek AI-curious talent who are proactive about using emerging tools to increase signal quality, reduce friction, and improve outcomes to deliver products faster, provide better service to our partners, and to streamline processes. Your ability to leverage our internal tools and technology to drive results is as important to us as your core domain expertise.
Compensation
Pay is generally based on the level, complexity, responsibility, location, and job duties/requirements of the specific position. We then source candidates with the requisite skills, expertise, education, training, and experience. If you are selected for an interview, please feel welcome to speak to a recruiter about our compensation philosophy and other available benefits. This role is eligible for base, bonus, equity, 401(k) match, and heavily subsidized benefits and perks.
Equal Employment Opportunity
To build technology and products that are used and loved by people and solve real-world problems, we need to build a team with many different perspectives and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Agency Disclaimer
DriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other organization location. DriveWealth is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of professional software development experience, including significant senior or lead experience
- Strong quantitative or financial domain experience, including pricing models, market microstructure, order matching, or trading systems
- Experience building and maintaining low-latency, high-throughput production systems
- Deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization in a JVM-based language
- Experience designing deterministic and reproducible systems where correctness and auditability are critical
- Knowledge of numerical precision and decimal or fixed-point arithmetic for financial calculations
- Proficiency in quantitative data analysis using data frames or tabular tools such as pandas, Polars, or R
- Strong testing discipline, including behavior-driven or scenario-based testing
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including collaboration with traders, risk managers, and quant researchers
- Experience with distributed systems concepts including consensus, clustering, state replication, and failover
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Finance, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with a broker-dealer, exchange, ATS, or regulated trading venue
- Familiarity with market data feeds, quote handling, and reference pricing sources
- Exposure to FIX or other trading-industry messaging protocols
- Experience with event-sourced or snapshot-based persistence and schema or data migration strategies
- Knowledge of capital markets regulatory concepts such as best execution, trade reporting, and price improvement obligations
- Experience with streaming or event-driven architectures such as Kafka in a trading or financial context
- Familiarity with container and deployment tooling in regulated, latency-sensitive environments
- Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline
- Experience with proprietary or in-house trading platforms or frameworks
- Open-source contributions to performance-critical or financial-systems projects
DriveWealth Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about DriveWealth and has not been reviewed or approved by DriveWealth.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with multiple medical, dental, and vision options, HSA/FSA accounts, life and disability insurance, and added resources like mental health and fertility support. Feedback suggests this breadth aligns with a modern, competitive total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid holidays and flexible or unlimited PTO, with remote/hybrid options supporting work-life balance. Feedback suggests these policies are positioned as generous in company and platform materials.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks such as commuter benefits, pet-friendly offices, and catered snacks/meals complement mental wellness resources to round out lifestyle support. Feedback suggests this mix enhances day-to-day experience for on-site and hybrid employees.
DriveWealth Insights
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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