Senior Java Engineer for Reference Data & Trading Engines

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.; Atlanta (KS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. is seeking a senior Java developer to join the team building the next-gen reference data backbone for ICE's derivatives trading platform.

The role focuses on production-grade systems with ownership from design to production, using Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, Oracle, and gRPC. The ideal candidate brings a product mindset, deep ownership, and a track record of maintaining complex systems through incidents and growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years Java development.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work well in a team with stakeholders.
• Experience with and strong understanding of multi-threaded server-side development and Java concurrency primitives.
• Core Java / Java collections and relational databases such as Oracle or Postgres.
• Performance tuning, debugging, and memory profiling.
• Unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Unix/Linux commands and tools.
• Demonstrable experience in design and system architecture.
• Comfort adopting and excelling with AI coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support the ICE reference data system and derivatives trading and auction engines
• Own features end-to-end, from system design and implementation through production support
• Build and maintain the data pipelines, caching layers, and APIs that trading systems depend on
• Work directly with clients, quality assurance, and product management to shape requirements and deliver high-quality solutions
• Contribute to system architecture decisions with real influence over how the platform evolves
• Collaborate in a small team where every engineer has significant scope and impact

Skills

Java development

Multithreading / concurrency

System design

Communication

AI coding tools experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kotlin

Kafka

Redis

Oracle

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Spring Boot

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. is seeking a senior Java developer to join the team building the next-gen reference data backbone for ICE's derivatives trading platform.

The role focuses on production-grade systems with ownership from design to production, using Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, Oracle, and gRPC. The ideal candidate brings a product mindset, deep ownership, and a track record of maintaining complex systems through incidents and growth.