Principal Data Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">About Us</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">DriveWealth is on a mission to make investing easier. We believe that everyone should have the ability to control their financial future, and that access to financial markets should not be limited by geography, wealth, or legacy systems. We are 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">There’s never been a better time to build a category-defining business and there has rarely been a team better positioned for this opportunity. Our culture blends the pace and agility of a fintech start-up with the impact, stability, and discipline of Wall Street. We encourage creativity and experimentation while ensuring institutional-grade execution and regulatory compliance in everything we do. Join us and help build the future of global investing!</span></p></div><h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be dedicated to building innovative data products that provide actionable insights and empower both our internal teams and partners to succeed. Your core focus will be on curating and maintaining key data sources and statistics that serve both internal and external stakeholders.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will act as the hands-on technical engine driving this work forward, spending 60–70% of your time writing code while shaping the architectural vision of our data ecosystem. You will architect for massive scale, treat data as software, and build highly performant, resilient models and reporting solutions (using Databricks, dbt, and Python) that fuel data-driven decision-making across the business.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Advanced Engineering &amp; Coding</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">End-to-End Ownership: Own the full lifecycle of data products, from initial conceptualization and architecture through to production deployment, optimization, and maintenance.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Core Development: Design and code complex dbt models and data transformation logic for high-volume financial datasets (e.g., trade transactions, stock ledgers, and clearing/settlement records).</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Python Automation: Write production-grade Python scripts for advanced data processing, anomaly detection, and custom orchestration logic that SQL cannot handle alone.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Performance Engineering: Take ownership of the "hardest problems" regarding query performance. Refactor legacy code and optimize incremental loading strategies to reduce costs and latency at scale.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Technical Architecture &amp; Standards</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CI/CD &amp; DevOps: Own the technical implementation of our data deployment reporting pipelines (Git, dbt Cloud), ensuring robust version control and seamless integration.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Data Quality as Code: Engineer automated testing frameworks and validation suites (using dbt tests/Python) to ensure data integrity for critical business layers.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Leadership &amp; Cross-Functional Impact</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Technical Project Leadership: Act as the hands-on lead for major initiatives. Scope, design, and manage complex data projects while remaining active in the codebase to ensure high-quality delivery.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner directly with stakeholders across Product, Finance, Operations, Risk, and Trading to translate domain-specific requirements into robust data products and reporting solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Mentorship &amp; Guidance: Act as the "go-to" technical resource for the team. Conduct thorough code reviews and help senior and junior engineers solve blockers through pair programming and architectural guidance.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What You’ll Need</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">8+ years of professional experience in analytics engineering or data engineering, with a proven track record of building and scaling analytical data ecosystems.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Expert proficiency in SQL, with experience optimizing complex queries and data models at scale.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Advanced proficiency in Python for data manipulation (Pandas/Polars/Spark) and interaction with APIs/AWS services.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience using Databricks for analytics workloads, including building and optimizing data models using Databricks SQL and dbt.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with dbt materializations, macros, and package management.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience architecting data models for FinTech and Capital Markets, including trade lifecycles, clearing/settlement, risk models, and financial reporting.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">AI-Assisted Engineering: Proficiency in leveraging AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot,or similar LLMs) to accelerate code delivery, automate documentation, and optimize engineering workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Proven ability to build data solutions that are reusable and modular, rather than one-off scripts.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience treating data as software by implementing unit testing, CI/CD, comprehensive documentation, and SLA monitoring.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ability to independently diagnose and resolve complex errors or issues within distributed systems (Spark/Databricks).</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Special Knowledge (Nice to Have, But Not Required)</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience implementing Airflow or similar orchestrators.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with Sigma Computing (from a data modeling perspective).</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience building Data Apps within Databricks.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience using AI/LLM tools to enable faster, smarter analytics workflows.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Pay Range &amp; Location</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Hybrid: $220,000—$240,000 USD</span></p> <p class="text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This role is open to candidates in the following locations; we cannot accommodate remote work outside these approved geographies.</span></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>New York City </strong>(Hybrid in-office)</span></p> </li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Chicago&nbsp;</strong>(Hybrid in-office)<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> </li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Remote:</strong> Austin, Denver, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle</span></p> </li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Working at DriveWealth</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We do our best work when we’re in the same room. To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York, Chicago, and Lithuania teams work in-office 4 days a week. We’ve found that being physically side-by-side is the only way to solve complex problems in real-time and stay truly accountable to the products we ship. When you’re here, you’re working directly with the people making the decisions. To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match. We also offer full insurance coverage, a wellness reimbursement, a company-provided phone, and a personal development allowance. Finally, we value the time you spend away from the office with generous PTO, observed holidays, and extended leave.</span></p> <p data-path-to-node="5"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Work Authorization</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Applicants must possess the legal right to work in the country where the position is located at the time of application. DriveWealth requires all employees to provide original documentation verifying their work authorization on or before their first day of employment.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">For US-based roles: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship. DriveWealth does not provide visa sponsorship or support for employment authorization, including transfers, at this time. Offers of employment are strictly contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the Company.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>How We Think About AI</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We leverage AI to work smarter and move faster. We seek AI-curious talent who are proactive about using emerging tools to increase signal quality, reduce friction, and improve outcomes to deliver products faster, provide better service to our partners, and to streamline processes. Your ability to leverage our internal tools and technology to drive results is as important to us as your core domain expertise.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Compensation</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.&nbsp; 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Equal Employment Opportunity</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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 and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Agency Disclaimer</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">DriveWealth does not accept agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, employees, or any other organization location. DriveWealth is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.</span></p></div>