About the Company
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR), a member of the S&P 500, is a global financial services company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with offices in over 15 countries. Through its affiliates, Interactive Brokers provides automated trade execution and custody of securities, commodities, foreign exchange, and prediction markets on over 170 markets in numerous countries and currencies.
For more than four decades, Interactive Brokers has focused on technology, automation, and innovation to provide clients worldwide with a sophisticated, unified platform to manage their investment portfolios. We serve individual investors, hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, financial advisors, and introducing brokers.
Our culture is driven by problem-solving, efficiency, and continuous improvement. We look for individuals who are intellectually curious, collaborative, and motivated to contribute to technology that helps simplify and enhance access to global financial markets. Interactive Brokers has consistently been recognized as a top broker by respected industry sources including Barron’s, Investopedia, Stockbrokers.com, and others.
About the team
We are a small, collaborative software development team supporting risk management in a brokerage system.
The role’s primary responsibility will be maintaining and improving the backend program which is monitoring the clients’ financial state, ensures to fulfill regulatory requirements and checks if they can afford their new orders.
Our application is written in C++ and run on Linux.
What you’ll do
- Develop and maintain the C++ the application and the related scripts/steps around it.
- Work primarily in a Linux environment using GCC and common command-line development tools.
- Investigate issues in existing software, identify root causes, and implement reliable fixes.
- Use AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude and Codex, responsibly to support design, implementation, testing, debugging, and code review.
- Write and maintain automatic test cases.
What we’re looking for
Required
- Good programming ability in C++
- Understanding of object-oriented programming, common data structures, algorithms, and the C++ Standard Library.
- Ability to read, understand, debug, and improve an existing C++ codebase.
- Strong logical and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Care and attention to detail, particularly when working on systems that support trading activity.
- The aim writing clear, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Familiarity with Linux or a strong willingness to work in a Linux-based development environment.
- Be eager to understand where your task stays in the big picture, not just code it. This is the way to develop, to learn the business logic and to have good understanding and overview of our component.
- Ability to work independently in long term while knowing when to involve others or to raise questions.
- Willingness to take ownership of tasks and follow them through to completion.
- A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with financial systems, trading systems or other data-intensive backend systems
Skills Required
- Good programming ability in C++
- Understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and the C++ Standard Library
- Ability to read, understand, debug, and improve an existing C++ codebase
- Strong logical and analytical problem-solving skills
- Care and attention to detail when working on systems supporting trading activity
- Ability to write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Familiarity with Linux or strong willingness to work in a Linux-based development environment
- Willingness to understand business logic and the broader system context
- Ability to work independently and involve others or raise questions when appropriate
- Willingness to take ownership of tasks through completion
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with financial systems, trading systems, or other data-intensive backend systems
Interactive Brokers Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Interactive Brokers and has not been reviewed or approved by Interactive Brokers.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with company-covered premiums available in some plans, plus dental and vision. Wellness incentives and accessible care benefits contribute to the perceived value of the package.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Total compensation commonly includes discretionary bonuses and stock grants that enhance earnings. These elements are frequently cited as meaningful parts of overall pay.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Annual pay increases are mentioned across multiple roles. This supports a perception of steady early-stage progression.
Interactive Brokers Insights
What We Do
Rated #1 Best Online Broker in 2022 for 5 consecutive years by Barron's. Interactive Brokers Group (Nasdaq: IBKR) and its predecessor companies have been building trading technology for over 44 years. Interactive Brokers Group’s consolidated equity capital exceeds $10 billion. Throughout its history, the company’s mission has remained unchanged: Create technology to provide liquidity on better terms. Compete on price, speed, size, diversity of global products and advanced trading tools. Interactive Brokers LLC is a member of NYSE, FINRA, SIPC. For more information, visit: ibkr.com
