- Senior
- Office in New York City
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:
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who thrives on solving complex data problems, and enjoys working cross-functionally with product, engineering and analytics teams to deliver trusted, high-impact data solutions. The ideal candidate is excited to take ownership of complex data challenges and help evolve our data platform to the next stage of scale and maturity.
The Data & Analytics organization at DriveWealth powers the company’s data ecosystem end-to-end. Within it, the Data Platform Engineering team owns two critical pillars:
- Data Ingestion - building reliable pipelines that bring data from diverse internal and external sources
- Semantic Data Layer - creating curated, consistent and reliable datasets that enable analytics, reporting and decision making
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines (batch, streaming and replication) that power analytics, reporting and compliance use-cases
- Translate business needs into data solutions partnering with product managers, engineering teams and business stakeholders
- Proactively identify challenges and opportunities, anticipate scaling, performance and quality needs before they become blockers
- Establish and champion best practices, including documentation, code reviews and standards for data modelling, orchestration and tooling
- Mentor and support other engineers, raising the bar for data engineering craft and helping grow team capabilities
- Contribute to self-service data products, enabling data consumers with curated datasets, semantic layers and tools that accelerate insight generation
What You’ll Need:
- 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering or related fields, with a track record of building and scaling data pipelines and platforms
- Technical Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Hands-on experience with Spark (PySpark and SparkSQL) and distributed data processing
- Expertise with orchestration and transformation tools (e.g. Airflow, DBT)
- Proficiency with Databricks and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g.Terraform or equivalent)
- Fluent in shell scripting and command line tooling (e.g. Databricks CLI)
- Proven ability to work independently and cross-functionally with product, engineering and business teams
- Experience working in teams with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows and Agile methodologies
- Curiosity, accountability and a drive to improve data quality, scalability and usability across the company
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
Nice To Have, But Not Required:
- Fintech or capital market experience
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance-driven reporting (e.g. FINRA, GDPR)
- Experience mentoring or coaching other engineers
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.
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health resources
- Generous paid time off with observed holidays (varies per country)
- Paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents
- Up to $2,500 or local equivalent each year to invest in continued education and personal development
- Up to $900 each year or local equivalent for fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Company-provided phone (varies by country)
- For HQ in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (US only)
- Employer 401K match (US only)
Benefit offerings vary based on country and are subject to change.
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.
