Staff Quantitative Developer

About DriveWealth DriveWealth is a global B2B financial technology platform. Our core business is providing Brokerage-as-a-Service, powering the investing and trading experiences for banks, broker dealers, asset managers, digital wallets, and consumer brands. DriveWealth’s APIs provide our Partners with a modern, extensible, and flexible toolkit to develop everything from traditional investment workflows to more innovative techniques such as rounding up purchases into fractional share ownership. DriveWealth, LLC is a registered broker dealer, member of FINRA and SIPC. Visit legal.drivewealth.com for full disclosures.

DriveWealth

Financial ServicesFintechand Technology

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drivewealth.com

201-500 employees

Financial Services

New York, NY

Privately Held

25k LinkedIn followers

Raised $542.7M

• 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
• 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)

Preferred

• 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

• 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.
• 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
• DriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our jobs
• alias, employees, or any other organization location. DriveWealth is not