Lead Developer

Chicago, IL, United States

Overview

Job Purpose

At ICE, we never rest. We are on a mission as a team. We are problem solvers and partners, always starting with our customers to solve their challenges and create opportunities. Our start-up roots keep us nimble, flexible and fast moving. We take ownership and make decisions. We all work for one company and work together to drive growth across the business. We engage in robust debates to find the best path, and then we move forward as one team. We take pride in what we do, acting with integrity and passion, so that our customers can perform better. We are experts and enthusiasts - combining ever-expanding knowledge with leading technology to consistently deliver results, solutions and opportunities for our customers and stakeholders. Every day we work toward transforming global markets.

ICE Clear Credit, Inc.(ICC), a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange Inc., is looking for a Lead Developer in their Chicago, IL office. The Lead Developer will help us architect and build our next generation services for financial markets. ICC is the world's largest systemically important clearinghouse for Credit Default Swaps (CDS). ICC is an entrepreneurial and aggressive organization that implements world-class risk management solutions for the CDS marketplace. ICC Systems span:

Mission critical capital market enterprise systems solving portfolio and real time risk management needs of world's largest Credit Default Swaps clearing house.

Work in Systematically Important Derivatives Organization on Distributed OLTP and batch processing systems for quantitative risk and pricing systems.

Enterprise Integration systems for ETL and Data Feed Management

Reporting systems for Member, Regulatory and Compliance

Intercontinental Exchange is a fast-moving environment that values concise and effective communication. The candidate must be a team player that can work independently, escalating issues when appropriate. Our fluid team works well together and can take constructive criticism in the spirit of improving software quality. This person will be involved in all aspects of software development, from architecture to design, coding, testing, and performance tuning. This is a very hands-on role where you will have immediate impact on our current development projects and play a leadership role in taking our architecture to the next level.

Responsibilities

Understand business & technical requirements and propose scalable & manageable solutions.

Design, estimate and implement technical solutions adhering to ICC and industry standards. Work on defining and refining standards.

Own implementation from design to deployment and facilitate promoting software to all environments.

Lead one or more initiatives in parallel and owning communication & collaborating with other teams

Lead pure tech initiative and raising bar with by laying out technical roadmaps for modernization and tech debt reduction

Primarily build backend enterprise systems using Java, Spring & related stack

Communicate estimates, delivery status, roadblocks, scope creep and other important changes to all stakeholders.

Participate in code review, show and tell / demo, product documentation & process improvements.

Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle.

Remain current with the latest technology and business topics.

Knowledge and Experience

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science or Management Information Systems

Must have 10+ years of work experience in a Software Development role, 3+ in a Lead Java role

7+ years of developing large scale enterprise applications using Java.

7+ years using modern frameworks such as Spring.

7+ years using database development concepts (SQL, views, etc.)

Experience with Microservice/SOA based architecture.

Experience with building complex business workflow using API and/or Batch constructs.

Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from business and technical staff both internal and external to the company

Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, and deliver quality software to production within tight schedules

Ability to adjust to changing requirements and timelines

Track record of completing assignments on time with a high degree of quality

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills

Self-motivated and self-directed in performing responsibilities

Preferred

5+ years of experience at a financial institution (major bank, hedge fund, prop shop) in theirfinancial markets technology departments We strive to train our team members in CDS clearing and other capital markets' domain and business concepts.

Knowledge/Experience of Statistical Models for Valuating Portfolios

Experience in developing micro-services in container-based Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift, Tanzu)

Experience with NoSQL and bigdata

Experience with load/performance testing

Financial Markets: Experience with OTC Credit Derivatives and/or other OTC derivatives - Interest Rate, Structured Products, Options. Candidate with good understanding and experience in working with Pricing / Risk Management / Portfolio Margining Models and Systems is preferred.

Mathematics : Comfortable with Financial Mathematics - including basic statistics and calculus. Familiar with the use of statistical and stochastic models in pricing of financial derivatives.

Schedule

This role offers work from home flexibility of one day per week.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, age, disability or veteran status, or other protected status.