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Salary: USD 150,000 - 175,000 / annual
IEX is an exchange operator and technology company dedicated to innovating for performance in capital markets. Founded in 2012, IEX launched a new kind of securities exchange in 2016 with a transparent business model and unique architecture designed to protect investors. The company applies proprietary technology and experience to drive performance across asset classes, serve investors, and advocate for transparent and competitive markets.
You will join the team building and supporting high-performance Java systems that deliver accurate, reliable equities market data from the exchange to the broader market. This role offers a strong opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems in a fast-paced market environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain Core Java applications supporting IEX's market data publishing systems
- Contribute to application frameworks, messaging APIs, data structures, reliability, and recovery mechanisms
- Build and support distributed systems that process and publish high-volume, real-time market data
- Participate across the software development lifecycle, including development, testing, build and deployment processes, packaging, and dependency management
- Partner with Product to define and develop the future state of market data publishing systems within the Equities business
- Help support systems across the exchange, including market data, order entry, post-trade processing, monitoring, and reporting
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional Java development experience, ideally supporting high-performance, real-time, or low-latency systems
- Strong understanding of core Java concepts, including multithreading, concurrency, data structures, and application design
- Familiarity with network programming and distributed systems concepts
- Comfort working with lower-level programming concepts, including bit shifting and signed versus unsigned data types
- Experience working in a Linux environment
- Strong problem-solving skills and collaborative approach to working across technical and operational teams
- Comfortable debugging and supporting production systems
Nice to Have:
- Experience with electronic trading systems, including FIX Protocol, market data feeds, or SIP feeds
- C++ experience
- KDB+ experience
- Experience using Codex or other AI-assisted coding tools
- Familiarity with Python, Shell, or other scripting languages
Prior market data or trading experience is helpful but not required.
