Lead Developer

Job Purpose

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) presents an opportunity for a full-time Lead C/C++ Developer to join a team responsible for systems development in a high throughput, low latency trading environment. The Lead Developer will have experience in all phases of software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering, to design, coding, unit testing, debugging and supporting in production.

This position requires technical proficiency/problem solving as well as an eager attitude, professionalism and solid communication skills.

The successful candidate will play a key role in building low-latency, high capacity and error-free multi asset routing applications, matching engines or back-end software systems to continue to maintain a leading position in low latency trading. The ideal candidate should be knowledgeable in performance-oriented programming, relational database systems, C/C++ and associated debuggers. Strong written and oral communication as the applicant will frequently be interacting with the business and sales teams to achieve strategic business goals

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and propose technical solutions in delivering projects within expected parameters of cost, time and quality
• Work with project managers to compile a work breakdown structure of tasks for a given deliverable and provide realistic estimates for completing the assignment
• Develop and unit test all functions created or modified according to software development best practices
• Collaborate with other Developers and QA Engineers to execute full cycle integration, functional and regression testing.
• Promote software changes across all environments, safely and responsibly, through to Live Production
• Participate in team exercises to identify and implement areas for continuous improvement
• Continuously improve the system performance and propose better solutions.
• Effectively interact with business and operations for solving design and operational challenges.

Knowledge and Experience

• 5+ years hands on experience in C/C++ programming language on Linux
• Experience with code analysis and coverage tools like Coverity, Valgrind, gcov/lcov
• Minimum 2+ years hands on scripting experience
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, algorithms and data structure
• Strong performance-oriented programming skills
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP and Multicast network protocols
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering