RegTech Engineer

Posted:
12/4/2024, 2:42:25 AM

Location(s):
New York, New York, United States ⋅ New York, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Data & Analytics ⋅ Software Engineering

Pay:
$72/hr or $149,760 total comp

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:

The Data & Analytics team at DriveWealth creates data products that provide access to relevant data and insights to help partners succeed.  We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing data & analytics team at DriveWealth.  This Engineer will take ownership of the regulatory related data products focused on enabling our compliance team and partners achieve their goals. The initial projects will center around core data processing that delivers data to regulatory parties and partners such as CAT and CAT2E. The team places a focus on ensuring data quality and reliability, which has resulted in some early partner facing data products that enable data quality improvements. This role will work closely with a regulatory data product manager to expand upon these data products over time.

The ideal candidate is excited by both processing large volumes of data as well as thinking through new solutions to reduce the operational burden of regulatory requirements through human centered automation.  This role will work closely with data engineers, analytics engineers, product managers and compliance professionals to ensure that requirements are met with scalable technical designs developed with strong engineering principals. Finally, the candidate should be excited about coming into a team in the process of shaping the direction of data and analytics at DriveWealth, this means balancing competing priorities and laying the groundwork for scale.

What You'll Do:

  • Build and maintain data products used to solve compliance and regulatory needs at DriveWealth 
  • Establish best in class development practices that put data quality first without unnecessarily hindering deployment time. 
  • Work with business partners, compliance and product managers to finalize requirements, anticipating future features to proactively provide value from data
  • Work with 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
  • 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 analytics solutions
  • Provide mentorship and guidance to analytics engineers and analysts

What You'll Need:

  • 5+ years of experience solving data problems with business partners
  • 2+ years experience with CAT reporting
  • 2+ years of experience working with trading systems
  • Experience working within larger data team : CI/CD process leveraging github and AGILE development where possible
  • Languages: Python, SQL, Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL)
  • Compute platforms: Databricks, AWS (e.g. Delta Lake, Kinesis and Kinesis Firehose) 
  • Databases: DynamoDb, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
  • Orchestration: Airflow, DBT
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent program

Nice to Have, But Not Required:

  • Experience with the FIX protocol 
  • Investigating CAT break reports and regulatory inquiries

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.

New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay Range
$150,000$170,000 USD

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.