Senior Java Developer

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 architecture
• Work with business analysts or product management in understanding new requirements
• Writing readable, testable code with an eye for performance
• Diagnosing and troubleshooting application issues in production and test environments
• Identify opportunities to improve and optimize the application.
• Create design documentation for new software development
• Lead efforts to design, architect and write new software components.

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor‘s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field
• 5+ years of recent server-side core Java experience
• Strong knowledge of multi-threaded and concurrent Java development
• Knowledge developing, testing, and scaling distributed systems
• Problem solving, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• First-hand experience with Enterprise Messaging (Kafka) and deploying, running and supporting applications in Cloud (AWS) is preferred
• Good understanding of JVM internals, particularly Java garbage collection
• Financial services experience, derivatives and option pricing is preferred