Java Engineer: IG Prime

Description

Who are we?

The Perks

• 12% Flexible Benefits Package over and above your base salary, and wide variety of pension, insurance and medical plans to choose from

• Participation in our annual performance-based bonus scheme

• Matched giving for your fundraising activity

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities

• Career-focused technical and leadership trainings in-class and online, incl. unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning platform

• A day off on your birthday

• Two days’ volunteering leave per year

• Regular coaching and development sessions with senior leadership will help you optimise your leadership impact and identify growth opportunities for both you and your team.

How we work

• Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm

• Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes

• Champion the client: Understand and prioritise client's needs

• Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth

• Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback

What you’ll do

• Develop and maintain IG’s FIX APIs

• Help deliver the IG Prime division’s product roadmap of new functionality

• Provide technical support to IG’s clients and FIX Support teams when required

• Monitor and manage FIX API services with a focus on performance, reliability, and resilience

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to improve processes and deliver excellent service

• Build test harnesses and increase automation across the FIX platform

What you’ll need for this role

• Experience with developing external APIs

• A continuous improvement mentality, experience with coding using AI

• Identifies development risks and builds mitigations

• Around 5 years of Java development experience

• Strong concurrent/multithreaded programming skills

• Experience with asynchronous systems (streaming, messaging)

• Experience using the Spring Framework

• Linux proficiency, including shell scripting

• Experience with cloud (ideally AWS)