Overview

Job Purpose

ICE owns and operates the world's most advanced financial infrastructure tasked with handling millions of transactions as well as carrying market data worldwide. Our infrastructure is designed from the ground up to meet our unique performance constraints while remaining impeccably reliable. By joining the Infrastructure Development & Automation team, you will aid us in building and maintaining this infrastructure as well as helping us continue to push the envelope with state-of-the-art technologies.

A successful candidate will gain invaluable hands-on experience with state-of-the-art equipment and innovative technologies in systems automation, computer networks, as well as an understanding of network protocols, concepts, and solutions. The experience will not be limited to technology – this is also an opportunity to get a good understanding of the operation of a global organization, how global teams interact, how projects are developed, solutions implemented, and how strategies are executed.

This role will have you joining our Infrastructure Development & Automation team where you will be working on our in-house automation platforms, advanced infrastructure monitoring tooling, and other internal development projects within the Infrastructure/Operations vertical. You will be exposed to all layers of these tools as well as learning the enterprise Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes at ICE. In time you will help support other teams’ use of these tools and develop new features or improve existing ones.

** Note: this is not a permanent position – the role will last 3 months (about 12 weeks)

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain software that interacts with various network devices, tools, databases, and user input
• Gather requirements from relevant business owners
• Create wireframes or diagrams to explain solutions
• Keep project stakeholders updated on progress
• Help ensure an orderly release management and SDLC process is followed
• Meet with technologists from other teams to ensure all new software appropriately captures the requirements, uses the best data sources, and does so in a secure manner
• Create and maintain documentation of system components and their operation
• Write unit and integration tests that ensure system reliability
• Help train end-users on the use of any new tooling
• Take ownership of tools and sub-components

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

The applicant is expected to have the following skills and experience on appointment:

• Computer Science (or related field) degree in-progress, or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience
• Good written and oral communication skills and the ability to work with others on both an ad hoc and project team basis, across organizational boundaries
• Basic software development skills
• Self-organizing and ability to pick up next task independently

Beneficial

The applicant will receive extra consideration if they have some of the following skills and experience:

• Development ability in Python, Javascript, Go (golang), C
• Familiarity with GNU/Linux operating systems
• Previous exposure to RPC or RESTful APIs
• Ability to work with JSON, XML, YAML, and proprietary data interchange formats
• Familiarity with a DVCS (e.g. git)
• Familiarity with development dependency management tools (e.g. npm, pip, maven, etc)
• Familiarity with unit and integration testing

Schedule

This role is on-site in our Chicago or Atlanta offices. 

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.