Senior Java Developer

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.

• 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.