Senior Developer, Architecture

ICE; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ICE is seeking a highly skilled Senior Developer to join their Enterprise Architecture team in Atlanta, Georgia. This role involves designing and maintaining developer tools, collaborating with architects on observability standards, and leading proof-of-concepts for innovative technologies. The ideal candidate has over 6 years of software development experience, expertise in major programming languages, and a strong background in distributed systems. This position offers the opportunity to influence how hundreds of engineers at ICE build software, with a focus on improving developer experience.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years working on platform or framework-level initiatives.
• Ability to debug complex production issues across layers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain developer tools for application and data pipeline.
• Collaborate with architects to define observability standards.
• Lead proof-of-concepts for emerging technologies.

Skills

Software development experience

Expertise in Python, Java, TypeScript, or Go

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Observability frameworks

Communication and collaboration skills

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Airflow

Job description

Overview

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.

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

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