Senior Java/FIX Engineer - IG Prime

IG Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible Benefits Package (12%)

Private medical cover for you and your

Life insurance

Gym memberships

25 Days holiday + Birthday day off + 2

Holiday buy/sell option

Global/local onboarding process

Parental pay & leave

Job summary

IG Group is seeking a Senior Java/FIX Engineer for IG Prime to own the APIs connecting IG to institutional clients. You’ll work on real-time price distribution, order flows, and reference data, modernising the FIX estate and building cloud-native trading APIs.

You’ll lead end-to-end service ownership, tackle latency and resilience, and collaborate with client-facing teams to diagnose live issues. Hybrid work arrangement with a high-bar engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Substantial commercial experience building backend systems in Java
• Strong command of concurrency and multi-threading and failure modes under load
• Real experience with asynchronous and event-driven systems
• Spring Framework (including Spring Boot) experience
• Experience designing and operating externally-facing APIs
• Cloud experience, ideally AWS
• Linux proficiency, including shell scripting
• Analytical mindset to debug production issues using logs and metrics

Responsibilities

• Design and build new trading and market-data APIs — REST, streaming and FIX — used directly by institutional clients
• Modernise IG’s FIX offering: session handling, market-data distribution and order flow to industry standards
• Solve real-time distributed systems problems in a trading environment focusing on resilience and correctness
• Own services end to end: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production behavior
• Use observability data to understand latency, throughput and reliability and identify unseen issues
• Collaborate with FIX Support and client-facing teams to diagnose live issues and explain constraints
• Contribute to spec-driven, AI-assisted development and raise engineering standards in testing and documentation
• Participate in shaping team processes and coding practices

Skills

Java

Concurrency

Asynchronous systems

Spring Framework

AWS

Linux

Observability

Communication

Job description

Job Title

Senior Java/FIX Engineer - IG Prime

Job Description

Prime Java/FIX Engineer

So, who are we?

IG Group is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn’t pivot to innovation; it’s how we’ve always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that’s rare in established businesses.

The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we’ll give you the platform to define what comes next.

Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

Your Team:

Join IG’s public-facing API team, who ownopen spectrading APIsandFIXprotocol usingcutting edge techfor IGintuitionalclients.Delivering secure, high-performance, low-latency solutions.

Your role in the Team’s Success:

Our team sits within the IG Prime division, building the institutional side of IG’s business. The Prime API team owns the APIs that connect IG to institutional clients, brokers and partners across global markets — the trading and market-data plumbing that our largest clients depend on every trading day. Maintaining and modernising our FIX-based APIs is one of the team’s core functions, and it’s the area this role would lead on.

That means real-time price distribution, order and execution flow, and reference data, running continuously through the trading day. When these systems degrade, clients notice immediately — so resilience, correctness and latency aren’t aspirations here, they’re the job.

You’ll join at a genuinely interesting point: we’re building a new suite of cloud-native trading APIs alongside modernising our existing FIX estate. There’s greenfield work and there’s hard, high-stakes work on live systems, and you’d get both.

What you’ll do:

• Design and build new trading and market-data APIs — REST, streaming and FIX — used directly by institutional clients

• Modernise IG’s FIX offering: bringing our session handling, market-data distribution and order flow up to the standard of the best venues in the industry

• Solve the problems that come with real-time distributed systems in a trading environment — resilience under load, recovery from failure, and correctness in flows where getting it wrong has direct client impact

• Own your services end to end: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production behaviour

• Use observability data to understand and improve latency, throughput and reliability — and to find the problems clients haven’t reported yet

• Work directly with FIX Support, dealing desks and client-facing teams to diagnose live issues. Client-facing technical support is a real part of the role, and some of the most valuable work we do

• Help shape how the team works, including our move towards spec-driven, AI-assisted development — we’re early enough that you’d be influencing the approach rather than inheriting it

• Raise the bar for engineering standards on the team: testing, documentation, and challenging designs that won’t hold up

What You’ll Need:

• Substantial commercial experience building backend systems in Java — enough that you’ve owned services in production, made the architectural calls, and lived with the consequences

• Strong command of concurrency and multi-threading — not just the APIs, but the failure modes, and how to reason about correctness under load

• Real experience with asynchronous and event-driven systems — streaming, messaging or queueing

• Spring Framework in anger, including Spring Boot

• Experience designing and operating externally-facing APIs , where you don’t control the client and can’t break the contract

• Cloud experience, ideally AWS

• Linux proficiency, including shell scripting

• The analytical instinct to work a hard production problem from symptom to root cause using logs, metrics and traces — and the patience to do it properly rather than guess

• Clear communication with non-engineers. You’ll be explaining technical constraints to client-facing teams and business stakeholders regularly

The perks:

It really is more than a job. We think like a start-up, but we deliver like a FTSE 100 — so the bar is high, and we won’t pretend otherwise. We work hybrid, which means three days in the office. We’ll recognise your talent and make sure that you can still have a life – at work, and outside of it. Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, extra time off… the list goes on.

• Competitive salary

• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)

• Private medical cover for you and your family

• Life insurance

• Contribution to gym memberships

• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total)

• The option to buy or sell holiday days

• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process

• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents

Number of openings

1