Senior Manager, Technology

About the role

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), presents a unique opportunity for a full-time hands-on Senior Manager of Engineering to lead a core engineering team responsible for maintenance and modernization of a web‑based test management platform for exchange testing. The test platform underpins quality assurance for all trading systems at NYSE.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for consolidating test systems into a unified platform: centralized test repository, modern execution engine, and web‑based UI for authoring, monitoring, and analysis.
• Drive architectural decisions, focusing on React/TypeScript frontend, Java/Python async backend, Kafka event streaming, and integration with existing C++/Java execution infrastructure.
• Define system requirements for performance, scalability, reliability, and security (SLAs, throughput, latency targets).
• Promote engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices across the team.
• Own planning and prioritization of the platform roadmap in quarterly increments; track progress against commitments.
• Proficiency in using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent) as a daily part of the development workflow.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive hands‑on software engineering experience across multiple technology stacks.
• 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role with demonstrated experience leading and growing a team of engineers.
• 4+ years building full‑stack web applications (React/TypeScript frontend, Python/Java/Node.js backend).
• 3+ years with cloud‑native systems (microservices, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, distributed systems).
• Solid hands‑on background with TCP/IP, Multicast network protocols, multithreading, and real‑time systems.
• Strong expertise in building data‑intensive platforms (databases, real‑time streaming, event‑driven architectures, message queues).

Skills

• Prior experience working on development of Trading Systems Test tools (plus).
• Hands‑on experience with C/C++.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol or other message‑based communication protocols.
• Experience building UIs that consume real‑time data streams (WebSocket / SSE / gRPC‑Web).
• Familiarity with Kafka concepts.

Pay

The expected base salary for this role, if located in New York, is between $190,000 - 215,000 USD. The base salary range does not include Intercontinental Exchange’s incentive compensation.

Benefits

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.