FIX Engineer

Company Overview

Interactive Brokers Group Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR) is a global financial services company headquartered in Greenwich CT USA with offices in over 15 countries. We have been at the forefront of financial innovation for over four decades known for our cuttingedge technology and client commitment.

IBKR affiliates provide global electronic brokerage services around the clock on stocks options futures currencies bonds and funds to clients in over 200 countries and territories. We serve individual investors and institutions including financial advisors hedge funds and introducing brokers. Our advanced technology competitive pricing and global market help our clients to make the most of their investments.

Barrons has recognized Interactive Brokers as the #1 online broker for six consecutive years. Join our dynamic multinational team and be a part of a company that simplifies and enhances financial opportunities using stateoftheart technology.

The successful candidate will be integral to the codevelopment and implementation of electronic order routing interfaces between Interactive Brokers (IBKR) and its clients. As part of IBKRs Client Integration FIX team the selected individual will coordinate the implementation testing and deployment of FIX Integrations bringing new business to the firm. Involvement will start in the presale stages and conclude with successful production deployment.

The position requires an extensive understanding of the FIX protocol the most commonly used infrastructure for many institutions and enterprises to electronically route multiasset orders to IBKR as well as practical experience with implementing and testing FIX interfaces for order routing applications.

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with clients vendors sales service desks legal & compliance software developers network engineers and other operational teams to integrate and maintain client connections using FIX Protocol
• Integration work will include analysis design development testing certification and quality assurance tasks.
• Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to configuring test environments for development and quality assurance purposes coordinating production releases of new interfaces and maintaining project documentation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or above
• Excellent command of spoken and written English
• Professional proficiency in at least one additional language (Japanese Cantonese or Mandarin) is highly preferred.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills and a criticalthinking mindset
• Strong FIX protocol knowledge and 23 years of solid experience ideally in the fields of technical support or quality assurance
• Familiar with UNIX/Linux systems and commandline environments
• Knowledge of telecommunications equipment and network connectivity setups
• Prior brokerage or financial industry experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Perl Python Awk shells) is preferred.

Company Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive salary package.
• Performancebased annual bonus (cash and stocks)
• Hybrid working model (3 days office/week)
• Group Medical & Life Insurance.
• Modern offices with free amenities & fully stocked cafeterias
• Monthly food card & companypaid snacks.
• Hardship/shift allowance with companyprovided pickup & drop facility*
• Attractive employee referral bonus.
• Frequent companysponsored teambuilding events and outings

* Depending upon the shifts.

**The benefits package is subject to change at the managements discretion.