Senior Manager, Technology

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

Overview

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), presents a unique opportunity for a full-time hands-on Senior Manager of Engineering to lead a core engineering team responsible for maintenance and modernization of web-based test management platform for exchange testing. This role carries significant ownership — the test platform underpins quality assurance for all trading systems at NYSE.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for consolidating test systems into a unified platform: centralized test repository, modern execution engine, and web-based UI for authoring, monitoring, and analysis.


• Drive architectural decisions, focusing on React/TypeScript frontend, Java/Python async backend, Kafka event streaming, and integration with existing C++/Java 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 of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent) as a daily part of the development workflow

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.


• 12+ years of progressive hands-on software engineering experience across multiple technology stacks.


• 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, distributed systems).


• 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).

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Prior experience working on development of Trading Systems Test tools is a plus


• Hands-on experience with C/C++


• Knowledge of FIX protocol or other message-based communication protocols


• Experience building UIs that consume real-time data streams (WebSocket / SSE / gRPC-Web)


• Familiarity with Kafka concepts

New York Base SalaryRange

The expected base salary for this role, if located in New York, is between $190,000 - 215,000 USD. The base salary range does not include Intercontinental Exchange’s incentive compensation. While we provide this range as general guidance, at ICE we compensate employees based on the skillset and experience of the individual. Regular full-time ICE employees are eligible for a suite of competitive employee benefits, including healthcare coverage (medical, dental and vision), a 401(k) plan, life insurance, time off, and paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

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