Lead Developer

Job Purpose

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is seeking a Lead Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering intelligent systems that accelerate software engineering workflows and unlock new capabilities across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering projects working in TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Rust.
• Architect and ship complete systems, from first prototype through to production.
• Lead agentic SDLC automation, working closely with engineering, QA, and business stakeholders to figure out where automation pays off most and build out solutions.
• Evaluate engineering standards for how we build with and without agents, including evaluations, guardrails, and deployment patterns.
• Engage with development teams to identify opportunities for process improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of senior software engineering experience, with production systems you've shipped and supported at scale.
• Comfort across the current AI stack, including LLMs, vector databases, embeddings, agent frameworks, and fine-tuning.
• The ability to take a rough, cross-functional problem, turn it into a concrete plan, and then deliver it.
• GenAI systems you've taken to production, including agent authoring, prompt orchestration, and evaluation frameworks running against real traffic.
• Good product sense. You can pick what's worth building, explain a trade-off to someone non-technical, and move between the code and the people using it.

Qualifications

• Knowledge Base / Knowledge Graph experience, both using and implementing AI applied to SDLC tooling: requirements engineering, code generation, test automation, developer productivity.
• AI applied to SDLC tooling: requirements engineering, code generation, test automation, developer productivity.
• Observability tooling like OpenTelemetry / MLflow, and experience fine-tuning or otherwise tuning LLMs for latency and cost.
• Open-source work in the AI/ML, graph, or developer-tooling worlds.
• A background in financial services or fintech, or familiarity with equity and commodity derivatives.
• Some team leadership or engineering management experience.

Skills

• Hands-on experience shipping GenAI systems at scale.
• Strong analytical judgment.
• The ability to operate with autonomy.

Benefits

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