Software Engineer III

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.

This is a full-time hybrid role (3 days in the office/2 days remote), located in Greenwich CT.

About your team:

The team is responsible for IBKR’s database of financial instruments. All major asset classes are supported (stocks, bonds, options, futures, cryptocurrency, et.al.) for trading on 200+ market centers around the world. The system uses numerous sources of information, such as exchanges, clearinghouses, depositories, and vendors, to maintain the database of 10m+ financial instruments. Information on the financial instruments supports IBKR’s order-management system, trade settlement system, customer portfolio system, regulatory reporting, etc.

What will be your responsibilities:

• Design, code, and maintain high-quality software applications and systems.
• Write functional, performant, and maintainable source code following company best practices and standards.
• Collaborate with project managers to refine functional specifications.
• Collaborate with software managers to refine design specifications.
• Learn new software technologies to enhance system performance and reliability.
• Learn new development tools and practices to improve software development performance.

Which skills are required or desired:

• Skill in the Java programming language.
• Skill in the Python programming language.
• Skill in SQL for data queries and modification.
• Skill in relational database design.
• Skill in Oracle PL/SQL development is a plus.
• Skill in ORACLE RDBMS implementation is a plus.
• Skill in relational database refactoring is a plus.

Company Benefits & Perks

• 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