Senior Developer, Architecture

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE); Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is seeking a Senior Developer to join the Enterprise Architecture team within the FIDS division.

You will help define, build, and scale frameworks and tools that power development across ICE’s business units, spanning observability, data pipelines, and internal platforms. You’ll drive cross-team initiatives, including OpenTelemetry integration, MCP-based AI proofs-of-concept, and declarative data-pipeline frameworks, while enabling thousands of workflows and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• At least 2 years on platform or framework-level initiatives
• Expertise in two or more languages (Python, Java, TypeScript, or Go) with full-stack proficiency
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at enterprise scale
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or similar observability frameworks
• Strong CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code knowledge
• Experience developing internal developer tools, SDKs, or frameworks
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable frameworks and developer tools for cross-team application and data-pipeline development
• Collaborate with architects and engineering leads to define patterns and best practices for observability, data lineage, and platform telemetry
• Lead POCs for emerging technologies such as LLM integration via MCP, automated test frameworks, and developer productivity tooling
• Partner with application teams to instrument distributed systems for scalability, reliability, and traceability in production
• Contribute to CI/CD automation, developer workflow improvements, and self-service capabilities to reduce delivery friction
• Advocate for DevEx through automation, documentation, and developer-friendly abstractions
• Mentor junior developers and collaborate across business units on cross-functional projects

Job description

Job Purpose

We’re seeking a highly skilled Senior Developer to join the cross-cutting Enterprise Architecture team within ICE’s Fixed Income and Data Services (FIDS) division.

This role sits at the intersection of architecture, developer experience, and platform engineering — helping to define, build, and scale frameworks and systems that power development across our business units. You’ll work on initiatives that span teams and technologies: integrating observability frameworks like OpenTelemetry across hundreds of applications, building internal AI and MCP proof-of-concepts, and maintaining our declarative YAML-based data pipeline framework that simplifies Airflow and infrastructure complexity for thousands of workflows. This is a great opportunity to influence the core of how hundreds of engineers at ICE build and deliver software. You’ll be part of a small, senior, and highly visible team focused on accelerating innovation, improving reliability, and setting the standard for development excellence across our products and data platforms.

This position is ideal for a polyglot engineer who is comfortable designing distributed systems, building automation and tooling, and enabling other developers to deliver faster, safer, and smarter.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable frameworks and developer tools that streamline application and data pipeline development across teams
• Collaborate with architects and engineering leads to define patterns, conventions, and best practices for observability, data lineage, and platform telemetry
• Lead proof-of-concepts (POCs) for emerging technologies such as LLM integration via MCP, automated test frameworks, and developer productivity tooling
• Partner with application teams to instrument distributed systems and ensure scalability, reliability, and traceability in production
• Contribute to CI/CD automation, developer workflow improvements, and self-service capabilities that reduce friction in delivery pipelines
• Advocate for developer experience (DevEx), simplifying complex processes through automation, documentation, and developer-friendly abstractions
• Mentor junior developers and collaborate across multiple business units on cross-functional projects

Knowledge and Experience

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 2 years working on platform or framework-level initiatives
• Expertise in at least two major programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, TypeScript, or Go), with proficiency across the stack
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at enterprise scale
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or similar observability frameworks
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Experience developing developer tools, SDKs, or internal frameworks used by other teams
• Ability to debug complex production issues across layers of the stack
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Prior experience building internal developer platforms or frameworks (“paved roads”)
• Experience with declarative data-pipeline frameworks
• Familiarity with AI/LLM integrations, plugin architectures, or agentic workflows
• Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) to debug, develop unit tests and generate test cases from requirements documents
• Exposure to IaC, Containerization and Continuous Delivery technologies
• Familiarity with OLAP databases and technologies at petabyte scale
• Strong understanding of software observability, metrics collection, and data lineage
• Contributions to open-source or internal developer tooling projects

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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.