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.
Software Development - Brokerage
This Software Development group engineers the core brokerage and risk technology at the heart of the Interactive Brokers platform. Spanning Enterprise Architecture, Market Risk, UI Brokerage, Client Integration, Client Accounts, Equity Distribution, and multiple specialized brokerage development teams, the group builds the systems that execute trades, manage risk, and serve clients worldwide. Members tackle complex engineering challenges at massive scale, shaping the tools that define modern electronic trading. It's a dream environment for developers who want to build sophisticated financial technology.
This is a hybrid role (3 days in the office/2 days remote).
About the Role:
The current Tools Engineering team has provided various world-class tools across the firm(Developers, Quality Engineers and Traders) to help solve their productivity issues and provide easy solutions to build environments at the runtime. The Tools Engineering team also provides an automated testing framework allowing end users(Devs/QA) to write functional integration test cases using simple scripts and mocking/stubbing various inputs and outputs to Interactive Broker's front office trading systems when required.
What will be your responsibilities within IBKR:
- We seek a 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.
- The candidate should be able to troubleshoot problems related to the Linux operating system and trading systems individually and collaborate with other team members.
- Candidate should have a problem-solving track record.
Which Skills Are Required:
- Overall, 3+ years of experience in the financial industry, specifically in front-office trading, is a must.
- 3+ 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 the Linux Operating System.
- Good understanding of the GIT version control system.
To be successful in this position, you will have the following:
- Docker experience will be a plus.
- Knowledge of JAVA and PERL is a plus.
- Backoffice & clearing experience is a plus.
- Self-motivated and able to handle tasks with minimal supervision.
- Superb analytical skills.
- Excellent collaboration and communication (Verbal and written) skills
- Outstanding organizational and time management skills
- Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus, and stock grant awards
- 401(k) retirement plan with competitive company match
- Excellent health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits. 100% employer-paid medical premiums, with generous employer contributions to dental & vision plans as well.
- Wellness screening and assessments, health coaches, and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Generous paid parental leave (up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for eligible employees)
- Company-paid basic life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), and short- and long-term disability coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, and Commuter FSAs)
- Quarterly fitness stipend to offset costs associated with traditional gym and fitness memberships or fees
- Education reimbursement and professional development opportunities
- Legal services, telehealth access, and voluntary insurance options
- Backup child and adult care support through Care.com
- Daily lunch allowance and fully stocked kitchen with healthy breakfast and snack options
Skills Required
- 7–10+ years of experience in the financial industry, specifically front-office trading
- 10+ years of experience with Python
- Deep understanding of the FIX protocol
- Domain knowledge of stocks, options, market data concepts, and FIX connectivity
- Subject matter expertise building efficient and scalable automation frameworks using Pytest
- Understanding of the Linux operating system
- Understanding of Git version control
- Docker experience
- Knowledge of Java and Perl
- Back-office and clearing experience
- Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
- Strong analytical, collaboration, communication, organizational, and time-management skills
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
