Data Platform Engineer 2

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 Team:

The Data & Analytics team at DriveWealth creates data products that provide access to relevant data and insights to help customers succeed. We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a growing data platform team within the data & analytics department. Data engineering focuses on creating, maintaining, and monitoring data pipelines, including ingestion and broader data services, products, and processes used by internal partners and external customers. 

The ideal candidate thrives working closely with analytics engineers, product managers, and internal stakeholders to interpret and clarify requirements, architect and build efficient data processing services, and ideate end-to-end data products to help customers achieve their goals. The candidate should be excited about joining a team to shape the direction of data and analytics at DriveWealth. This means balancing competing priorities and laying the groundwork for scale while building top-tier data products. 

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain data pipelines, including replication, batch, and streaming processes
• Ensure consistent, accurate output is delivered quickly through efficient coding with testing and verification
• Work with data product managers and business partners to ensure requirements can translate into data engineering solutions, anticipating challenges to provide suggestions proactively
• Work to establish an open and scalable data culture through documentation, constructive code reviews, and clear explanations of priorities and pain points
• Provide thought leadership, best practices on architecture and tooling, and standards for designing and implementing scalable data solutions 
• Provide mentorship and guidance to other data engineers
• Work with the broader data & analytics team to ideate, build, and maintain “self-service” data products that enable data and analytics usage (tables, reports, dashboards, and Python notebooks), stepping in to help deliver and provide guidance wherever necessary and possible

What You’ll Need:

• 3+ years of experience solving data problems with business partners
• Experience working within larger data team: CI/CD process leveraging GitHub and AGILE development where possible
• Working knowledge of a modern orchestration platform such as DBT, Airflow, etc.
• Fluent in Python, SQL, PySpark, Spark SQL, Databricks, AWS
• Experience with Terraform (AWS, Databricks), Shell Scripting, GIT, Databricks CLI, and other Command Line Tools
• Experience with Agile Software Development, Event Drive Architecture, Customer Facing Data Solutions and information sharing strategies
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent program
• Bonus points for:
  • FinTech or stock market experience
  • Familiarity with GDPR OR FINRA OR other regulations

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: at this time, we are not able to hire in all states.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental Health and family planning services
• Unlimited paid time off with ten observed holidays
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• $2,500 each year to invest in continued education and personal development
• $75 a month in fitness and wellness reimbursement
• Company-provided phone
• Hybrid work experience that allows for flexibility
• For in-office employees, a daily lunch stipend, unlimited snacks, and engaging office space in the Financial District

*The benefits outlined above are for US employees, benefit offerings vary based on location

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.