Java Engineer: IG Prime
IG operates an award-winning trading platform and provides forex trading services, support, and educational resources through IG Academy.
About IG
IG is a trading-services company offering an award-winning trading platform, including forex trading services in the US. Its website highlights instant support and educational resources through IG Academy, and warns users about the risks of leveraged CFD trading.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and maintain FIX APIs and deliver new functionality for the product roadmap. You will support clients and FIX Support teams, monitor API services for performance and resilience, collaborate on process improvements, and build test harnesses and automation across the FIX platform.
Requirements
- Experience developing external APIs
- Experience coding using AI
- Ability to identify development risks and build mitigations
- Around 5 years of Java development experience
- Concurrent and multithreaded programming skills
- Experience with asynchronous systems, including streaming and messaging
- Experience using the Spring Framework
- Linux proficiency, including shell scripting
- Cloud experience, ideally AWS
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain FIX APIs
- Deliver new functionality for the product roadmap
- Provide technical support to clients and FIX Support teams when required
- Monitor and manage FIX API services for performance, reliability, and resilience
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to improve processes and deliver service
- Build test harnesses and increase automation across the FIX platform
Benefits
- Flexible Benefits Package
- Pension, insurance, and medical plans
- Annual performance-based bonus scheme
- Matched giving for fundraising activity
- Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities
- Birthday leave
- Two days’ volunteering leave per year
