Software Engineer III

ApplyMint; Greenwich (CT); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock grants

401(k) retirement plan with company-m

Excellent health and wellness benefits

Education reimbursement

Lunch allowance

Job summary

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. in Greenwich, CT, seeks an experienced Java-focused backend developer to design scalable systems for client services and financial operations. You will build robust back-end services, APIs, and tooling, collaborating across product and engineering teams.

The role involves a hybrid work arrangement (3 days in office/2 days remote) with an emphasis on problem-solving and delivering reliable software for a global trading platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master's degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of Java experience or similar OO language.
• Strong knowledge of OO concepts and n-tier architectures.
• Relational database concepts; Oracle is a plus.
• Hands-on server-side programming with Java/JEE or C++, RESTful services and microservices.
• Experience with application server deployment, ideally JBoss.
• Desire to learn financial instruments and concepts.

Responsibilities

• Create software applications or systems to meet user needs with focus on functionality, reliability, and scalability.
• Write clean, maintainable Java code and develop back-end services and algorithms.
• Conduct thorough testing and resolve issues to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Collaborate with developers, designers, product managers, and stakeholders to define requirements.
• Review peers' code for quality and provide feedback.
• Update and modify existing applications to improve efficiency and security.
• Create and maintain documentation for code and development processes.
• Keep up with industry best practices and emerging technologies.

Skills

Java

OO concepts

RESTful services

Microservices

Server-side programming

JBoss

Oracle

C++

Education

Bachelor's or Master in Computer Science or related

Tools

JBoss

Oracle

Job description

About the Company

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR), a member of the S&P 500, is a global financial services company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with offices in over 15 countries. Through its affiliates, Interactive Brokers provides automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, foreign exchange, and prediction markets on over 170 markets in numerous countries and currencies. For more than four decades, Interactive Brokers has focused on technology, automation, and innovation to provide clients worldwide with a sophisticated, unified platform to manage their investment portfolios. We serve individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors, and introducing brokers. Our culture is driven by problem-solving, efficiency, and continuous improvement. We look for individuals who are intellectually curious, collaborative, and motivated to contribute to technology that helps simplify and enhance access to global financial markets. Interactive Brokers has consistently been recognized as a top broker by respected industry sources including Barron’s, Investopedia, Stockbrokers.com, and others.

This is a hybrid role (3 days in the office/2 days remote).

About your team:

Our clearing applications group works on back-end, internal systems and client-facing applications. These applications support Funds and banking software handling client cash, brokerage operations, securities borrowing and lending, clearing operations including regulatory reporting, trade settlement and reconciliation, corporate action processing, client statements, reference data systems, and IPO processing, to name just a few. In addition, we also continuously work on our fully integrated internal development and operational tools used to handle functions such as software releases, job scheduling, service location and security frameworks, and build management tools. We are looking to continuously improve our intelligent, automated systems to provide the world-class solutions and systems our brokerage customers expect.

What will be your responsibilities within IBKR:

• Creating software applications or systems to meet user needs while considering functionality, reliability, and scalability.
• Utilizing Java programming languages to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code and develop back-end services and algorithms.
• Conducting thorough testing to identify bugs or issues in the software and resolving them to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Working closely with other developers, designers, product managers, and stakeholders to understand project requirements and specifications.
• Reviewing code written by peers for quality assurance and providing constructive feedback.
• Updating and modifying existing applications to improve efficiency, enhance functionality, and fix vulnerabilities.
• Creating and maintaining detailed documentation for code, software designs, and development processes for future reference.
• Keeping up with industry best practices, emerging technologies, and programming languages to refine skills and improve development processes.
• Contributing to project timelines, estimates, and resource allocations to ensure deadlines are met and goals are achieved.
• Assisting users with software-related issues and providing training sessions when needed.
• Have a desire to learn about and understand financial instruments and concepts.

Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related degree.
• 5+ years of Java experience or similar object-oriented language experience.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented concepts, n-tier applications.
• Knowledge of relational database concepts (Oracle is a plus).
• Hands-on experience with server-side programming, ideally with Java/JEE or C++, message-oriented systems, RESTful web services, and microservices.
• Desire to challenge the status quo, create simple, elegant solutions to complex problems, and follow solutions from development through production release, acceptance testing, and support.
• Experience with configuration and deployment on application servers, ideally JBoss.
• Knowledge of financial instruments is a plus but is not required. Otherwise, you have a desire to learn about and understand financial instruments and concepts.

Company Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus, and stock grant awards
• 401(k) retirement plan with competitive company match
• Excellent health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits. 100% employer-paid medical premiums, with generous employer contributions to dental & vision plans as well.
• Wellness screening and assessments, health coaches, and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous paid parental leave (up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for eligible employees)
• Company-paid basic life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), and short- and long-term disability coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, and Commuter FSAs)
• Quarterly fitness stipend to offset costs associated with traditional gym and fitness memberships or fees
• Education reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Legal services, telehealth access, and voluntary insurance options
• Backup child and adult care support through Care.com
• Daily lunch allowance and fully stocked kitchen with healthy breakfast and snack options