Senior Java Developer

Overview

Job Purpose

ICE Data Services (an Intercontinental Exchange company) is seeking a talented Senior Java Developer to join its Core Technology team to develop Omega, an ICE proprietary framework. The Core Technology team also supports multiple ICE Data Services businesses including Bond Pricing, Reference Data and Index businesses. This presents a unique opportunity to join a growing technology team providing the infrastructure, framework and data to key, and expanding, ICE businesses. The successful candidate will be able to multitask in a dynamic team-based environment, whilst demonstrating strong problem-solving, extensive technical skills, decision-making abilities and the highest level of professionalism.

The candidate should be able to work independently, handle multiple simultaneous tasks and be adept at prioritizing their work. The candidate will be able to focus on the project priorities to deliver the required product at the scheduled time. They should be comfortable collaborating with business analysts, product managers, quality assurance groups and client services to refine requirements and plan implementation strategies.

The applicant will have experience in problem solving, planning, and estimating development efforts and have strong communication skills. Most importantly they should demonstrate the ability to show initiative and be able to move projects forward to completion with minimal supervision.

The candidate will be expected to be involved in the full life cycle of the systems development from requirement gathering through development and testing to on-going support and maintenance. The position will involve some on-call support outside of regular business hours, nights and weekends.

This Developer will be working in a small group on ICE Data Services core technology including market data, symbology and standing data systems therefore extensive familiarity with such systems is required.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to core Omega framework development, with an eye toward extensibility and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain Omega business applications.
• Design and build agentic tooling and automation for the development community.
• Collaborate with developers, system engineers, business analysts, and product managers on requirements and delivery.
• Provide production support, including occasional on call.

Knowledge and Experience

• Deep expertise in Java SE 11+ (don't expect Spring/JEE patterns here), comfortable across both framework-level and application-level code.
• Aptitude for systems/API design - reasoning about tradeoffs like compatibility and extensibility.
• Strong experience with large, high-throughput datasets in Java.
• Grounding in event-driven, sequenced-message-stream architectures.
• Fluent in GNU/Linux with at least one scripting language.
• Skilled in JVM tuning, optimization, and performance profiling.
• Proficient with Git/GitHub, Gradle, GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• Self-directed with strong communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience building AI/agentic tooling.
• Experience with low-latency, deterministic event-processing systems (e.g., market data feed handlers, matching engines, or other sequenced-stream architectures).
• Working knowledge of equity and fixed income securities.

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Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.