Senior Application Architect
Job Description
DriveWealth, the pioneer of fractional equities trading and embedded investing, is a visionary technology company that empowers more than 100 partners around the world to engage their customers by placing the markets in the palm of their hand. We believe the future is fractional, transactional and mobile. Every mobile device should be a gateway to accessing investing and savings products, services, advice, and assistance for global citizens of all ages, wealth stages, and levels of financial expertise. DriveWealth's unparalleled consultative support and cloud-based, industrial strength technology platform allow partners to seamlessly offer branded investing experiences to drive customer acquisition, loyalty, retention, and revenue growth. DriveWealth's commitment to continuous evolution and innovation makes it the partner of choice for powering the future of investing.
Recently completing a Series D raise, DriveWealth's mission is to democratize investing globally by working with partners to invent new ways to use its API-based technology to provide emerging investors with cutting-edge embedded experiences, offer first-time access to U.S. markets, and the ability to begin investing with as little as $1. DriveWealth is committed to empowering consumers around the world to become owners by delivering the most modern brokerage infrastructure, unparalleled industry expertise, and a culture of continued evolution.
What You'll Do
- Design cloud-based software applications for financial and trading systems.
- Conduct technical design and analysis of new software applications.
- Collaborate with developer managers, product managers, and SMEs to determine business-specific application needs.
- Compile and implement application development plans for new or existing applications.
- Demonstrate application prototypes and integrate user feedback.
- Design major aspects of the architecture of an application, including components such as user interface, middleware and infrastructure.
- Providing technical leadership to the application development team.
- Perform design and code reviews.
- Ensure that uniform enterprise-wide application design standards are maintained.
What You'll Need
- A minimum of 5 to 8 years of development and architecture experience with high transaction, cloud-based applications.
- A high level of technical expertise, combined with excellent planning, coordination and communication skills.
- Experience with microservices architecture concepts.
- Demonstrated experience designing resilient, scalable applications.
- Very Strong background with relations databases, including design patterns, partitioning, scaling, and performance optimization. Experience with MS SQL Server or PostgreSQL a plus.
- Insurance – Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD & STD. HSA and FSA options.
- Unlimited PTO
- 401k plan
- Flexible working hours and work from home
- Continuing education and conferences reimbursement
- Fitness/Wellbeing reimbursement
- Home Office stipend
- Lunch program, snacks and beverages available in the office
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.
Recommended Skills
- Application Design
- Architecture
- Cloud Computing
- Code Review
- Communication
- Coordinating