Senior Software Development Engineer, API

About the Role:

The API Team is responsible for all external interactions with DriveWealth trading platform. You will learn from and contribute to a modern Java code base that is highly concurrent and in many places follows reactive style programming. Our jobs run in the cloud using many advanced AWS services. We still use some of the typical enterprise messaging services (Kafka/ActiveMQ), and caching technologies (Redis), etc.

The Senior Engineer on the offshore API team works collaboratively with our engineers in the New York office, and business teams to build next generation features and enhancements to our API platform to help our clients build innovative investing solutions at scale.

What You’ll Do:

• Hands-on software development as you grow to understand how we handle various money flows
• Working with the team to architect and design new systems
• Monitoring, maintaining, and enhancing existing systems
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders
• Deeply understanding real-world money movement workflows in the banking industry and translating the process to automate manual operational processes
• Maintain a high bar for quality of code and work aggressively to eliminate unnecessary duplication and awkward workarounds.

What You’ll Need:

• At least 6+ years of experience in back-end software development using OOP/Functional principles. We use Java.
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Experience in a good number of the following: Spring Boot, OpenAPI, message queuing frameworks (AMQ, Kinesis, SQS, Kafka, etc.), distributed caching (we use Redis), DynamoDB (or similar). PostGres or similar too
• Active development experience in a cloud based microservices environment (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). We use AWS.
• Experience with compute/container platforms such as AWS EC2, K8s is highly preferred
• Experience with Git and Github, gitflow and git actions
• Passion for rigorous engineering practices and discipline: code reviews, automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.
• Understand software systems architecture, design decisions and tradeoffs, and how to collaborate design ideas
• Self starter approach and ability to effectively work with cross functional teams to understand requirements and engineer highly performant implementations
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written

Nice to Have, But Not Required:

• Experience with financial backend systems
• Experience working on performance fine-tuning

Compensation: €5041-€5466 per month

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in Lithuania. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. Please note: this role may be expected to come into our office in Vilnius, Lithuania on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.