Senior Java Developer

Job description

Job Purpose

ICE Data Services (an Intercontinental Exchange company) is seeking a senior Java engineer for its Core Technology team, which builds and maintains Omega - ICE's proprietary data distribution and transformation framework, and supports a development community spanning Bond Pricing, Reference Data, and Index. We're looking for a versatile engineer with a systems-design mindset: comfortable working at the framework level and building applications on top of it, including the agentic tooling that will shape how the development teams work going forward.

Responsibilities

Contribute to core Omega framework development, with an eye toward extensibility and maintainability. Develop and maintain Omega business applications. Design and build agentic tooling and automation for the development community. Collaborate with developers, system engineers, business analysts, and product managers on requirements and delivery. Provide production support, including occasional on call. Knowledge and Experience Deep expertise in Java SE 11+, comfortable across both framework-level and application-level code.

Aptitude for systems/API design — reasoning about tradeoffs like compatibility and extensibility. Strong experience with large, high-throughput datasets in Java. Grounding in event-driven, sequenced-message-stream architectures. Fluent in GNU/Linux with at least one scripting language. Skilled in JVM tuning, GC optimization, and performance profiling. Proficient with Git/GitHub, Gradle, GitHub Actions CI/CD. Self-directed with strong communication skills.

Preferred Experience building AI/agentic tooling. Experience with low-latency, deterministic event-processing systems (e.g., market data feed handlers, matching engines, or other sequenced-stream architectures). Working knowledge of equity and fixed income securities. #LI-HR1 #LI-ONSITE Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.