Job Purpose
At Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), we engineer technology, exchanges and clearing houses that connect companies around the world to global capital and derivative markets. With a leading-edge approach to developing technology platforms, we have built market infrastructure in all major trading centers, offering customers the ability to manage risk and make informed decisions globally. By leveraging our core strengths in technology, we continue to identify new ways to serve our customers and transform global markets.
As a Senior Java Developer, you will be part of a team responsible for contributing to the design, development, maintenance and support of ICE Chat, a high-volume enterprise instant messaging application. This is an exciting opportunity for a technologist to make a significant impact on the team and help determine the technologies that will be used. The ideal candidate must be results-oriented, self-motivated and can thrive in a fast-pace environment. This role requires frequent interactions with project and product managers, developers, quality assurance and other stakeholders, in order to ensure delivery of a world class application to our users. An ideal candidate should have a strong sense of ownership and be able to exercise independent judgment as well as collaborate effectively.
This role requires close interaction and coordination with the team(s) based in ICE’s US offices. As such, there is an expectation that the qualified candidates will be able to overlap part of their working hours with US Eastern time zone.
Responsibilities
Designing and developing key system architectureWork with business analysts or product management in understanding new requirementsWriting readable, testable code with an eye for performanceDiagnosing and troubleshooting application issues in production and test environmentsIdentify opportunities to improve and optimize the application.Create design documentation for new software developmentLead efforts to design, architect and write new software components.Knowledge and Experience
Bachelor‘s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field5+ years of recent server-side core Java experienceStrong knowledge of multi-threaded and concurrent Java developmentKnowledge developing, testing, and scaling distributed systemsProblem solving, strong analytical and troubleshooting skillsAbility to work collaboratively in a team environmentFirst-hand experience with Enterprise Messaging (Kafka) and deploying, running and supporting applications in Cloud (AWS) is preferredGood understanding of JVM internals, particularly Java garbage collectionFinancial services experience, derivatives and option pricing is preferred