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.
Job Description:
- Looking for Self-Driven, Self Motivated & Self-Managed Software Developer with expertise in Python Programming
- An ideal candidate will be able to Design/Develop solutions based on the requirements/needs of end users.
- Consistently deliver on timelines with the highest quality of work.
- Candidate should be able to troubleshoot problems related to Linux Operating System, Trading Systems individually and collaborating with other team members.
- Candidate should have advanced level of Python Programming Language
- Candidate should have a Problem-Solving track record.
About Tools Engineering Team:
Current Tools Engineering team has provided various World Class Tools across the firm(Developers, Quality Engineers and Traders) help solve their productivity issues and provide easy solutions to build environments at the runtime. The Tools Engineering team also provides Automated Testing Framework allowing End Users (Devs/QA) to write Functional, Integration Test Cases using Simple scripts. Mocking/Stubbing various input and outputs to Interactive Broker's front office trading systems when required.
Required Qualifications:
- Overall 7-10+ years of Experience in Financial Industry specifically in Front Office Trading is a MUST.
- 10+ years of experience with Python programming language is a MUST.
- Must have a deep understanding of FIX protocol.
- Strong domain knowledge of Financial Asset Classes like Stocks, Options, Market Data Concepts, FIX Connectivity
- Subject Matter Expert in building Efficient and Scalable Automation Frameworks using Pytest
- Good understanding of Linux Operating System.
- Good understanding of GIT version control System.
Optional Qualifications:
- Docker experience will be a plus point.
- Knowledge of JAVA and PERL is a plus.
- Backoffice & Clearing experience is a plus.
Company Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive salary package.
- Performance-based annual bonus (cash and stocks).
- Hybrid working model (3 days office/week).
- Group Medical & Life Insurance.
- Modern offices with free amenities and fully stocked cafeterias.
- Monthly food card and company-paid snacks.
- Hardship/shift allowance with company-provided pickup & drop facility*
- Attractive employee referral bonus.
- Frequent company-sponsored team-building events and outings
* Depending upon the shifts.
**The benefits package is subject to change at the management's discretion.
Skills Required
- 7–10+ years of experience in the financial industry, specifically front-office trading
- 10+ years of experience with Python programming
- Deep understanding of the FIX protocol
- Strong knowledge of financial asset classes, including stocks and options
- Knowledge of market data concepts and FIX connectivity
- Subject matter expertise building efficient, scalable automation frameworks using Pytest
- Good understanding of Linux
- Good understanding of Git version control
- Docker experience
- Knowledge of Java
- Knowledge of Perl
- Back-office and clearing experience
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
