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Lead Developer

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

New York, NYFull-time$168–220K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$168–220K/yr
Location
New York, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, seeks a Lead C/C++ Developer for systems development in a high-throughput, low-latency trading environment. The role builds and maintains multi-asset routing applications, matching engines, or back-end systems. The successful candidate works across the software development lifecycle and collaborates with developers, QA, project managers, business teams, and operations.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

C/C++ ProgrammingLinuxCode AnalysisCode CoverageScriptingComputer Science FundamentalsAlgorithmsData StructuresPerformance-Oriented ProgrammingTCP/IPMulticast Protocols

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Engineering5+ Years C/C++ Experience2+ Years Scripting Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) presents an opportunity for a full-time Lead C/C++ Developer to join a team responsible for systems development in a high throughput, low latency trading environment. The Lead Developer will have experience in all phases of software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering, to design, coding, unit testing, debugging and supporting in production.

This position requires technical proficiency/problem solving as well as an eager attitude, professionalism and solid communication skills.

The successful candidate will play a key role in building low-latency, high capacity and error-free multi asset routing applications, matching engines or back end software systems to continue to maintain a leading position in low latency trading. The ideal candidate should be knowledgeable in performance oriented programming, relational database systems, C/C++ and associated debuggers. Strong written and oral communication as the applicant will frequently be interacting with the business and sales teams to achieve strategic business goals

Responsibilities

  • Analyze requirements and propose technical solutions in delivering projects within expected parameters of cost, time and quality

  • Work with project managers to compile a work breakdown structure of tasks for a given deliverable and provide realistic estimates for completing the assignment

  • Develop and unit test all functions created or modified according to software development best practices

  • Collaborate with other Developers and QA Engineers to execute full cycle integration, functional and regression testing.

  • Promote software changes across all environments, safely and responsibly, through to Live Production

  • Participate in team exercises to identify and implement areas for continuous improvement

  • Continuously improve the system performance and propose better solutions.

  • Effectively interact with business and operations for solving design and operational challenges.

Knowledge and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

  • 5+ years hands on experience in C/C++ programming language on Linux

  • Experience with code analysis and coverage tools like Coverity, Valgrind, gcov/lcov

  • Minimum 2+ years hands on scripting experience

  • Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, algorithms and data structure

  • Strong performance-oriented programming skills

  • Strong understanding of TCP/IP and Multicast network protocols

New York Base Salary Range

The expected base salary for this role, if located in New York, is between $168,000 - 220,000 USD.  The base salary range does not include Intercontinental Exchange’s incentive compensation.  While we provide this range as general guidance, at ICE we compensate employees based on the skillset and experience of the individual. Regular full-time ICE employees are eligible for a suite of competitive employee benefits, including healthcare coverage (medical, dental and vision), a 401(k) plan, life insurance, time off, and paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

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Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.

How this job compares

Set against the 40,832 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$168–220K/yr
  • New York median$158–225K/yr2,388 salary ranges
  • US median$135–218K/yr32,472 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $194K, is close to the New York median midpoint ($195K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 3,059 open Software Engineer jobs in New York and 40,832 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (33,318 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 14,022 of the 40,832 open Software Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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