Senior Engineering Lead - Real-Time Test Platform

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), is seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead a core team responsible for maintaining and modernizing a web-based test management platform used for exchange testing.

You will own the technical roadmap, drive architecture for React/TypeScript frontend and Java/Python backend, and partner with the trading systems QA. The role emphasizes ownership, reliability, and security with a strong emphasis on scalability

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive hands-on software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role with demonstrated experience leading and growing a team of engineers.
• 4+ years building full-stack web applications (React/TypeScript frontend, Python/Java/Node.js backend).
• 3+ years with cloud-native systems (microservices, Kubernetes, cloud platforms).
• Solid hands-on background with TCP/IP, Multicast network protocols, multithreading, and real-time systems.
• Strong expertise in building data-intensive platforms (databases, real-time streaming, event-driven architectures, message queues).

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for consolidating test systems into a unified platform.
• Drive architectural decisions focusing on frontend/backend and integration with existing execution infrastructure.
• Define system requirements for performance, scalability, reliability, and security (SLAs, throughput, latency targets).
• Promote engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices across the team.
• Own planning and prioritization of the platform roadmap in quarterly increments; track progress against commitments.
• Proficiency in using AI coding assistants as a daily part of the development workflow.

Skills

React/TypeScript

Java/Python

Leadership

Full-stack web apps

Cloud-native systems

Kafka

C/C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), is seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead a core team responsible for maintaining and modernizing a web-based test management platform used for exchange testing.

You will own the technical roadmap, drive architecture for React/TypeScript frontend and Java/Python backend, and partner with the trading systems QA. The role emphasizes ownership, reliability, and security with a strong emphasis on scalability