Senior Software Engineer, Party & Account Services at DriveWealth
New York, NY
$155,000–$175,000from the description
Jul 1, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on the systems that handle brokerage account creation, customer onboarding, KYC workflows, and account lifecycle management for institutional partners. Day-to-day work involves building Java services and Kafka-driven processors, owning integrations with clearing and tax-reporting platforms, and maintaining high-availability REST APIs. Suits engineers with strong distributed-systems experience in a regulated financial environment.
Senior level · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 720 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 540–930
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title 'Java Backend Engineer' carries no explicit seniority level, so the title states no level; however, the scope of responsibilities (leading technical design, owning clearing integrations, Tier-1 SLA ownership across distributed systems) clearly supports a Senior classification.
Production infrastructure (EKS, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka) is listed in the 'Monitor production systems' bullet under core responsibilities — these are treated as hard gates since they appear in the primary duties/requirements section, not under a nice-to-have heading.
The 'Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)' section explicitly labels Maven multi-module/JFrog Artifactory, LLM/AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Strands SDK), RAG, vector databases, agentic AI, and MCP as preferred — all marked accordingly.
No minimum years of overall experience are stated in the posting.
The role requires 3 days/week in-office in the New York City metro; it is not fully remote.
Compensation is stated as a base pay range; the posting also notes eligibility for bonus, equity, and 401(k) match, which are not captured in the comp fields.
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