Java Engineer: IG Prime

Job Title

Java Engineer: IG Prime

Job Description

About IG Group

 

IG Group is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses.

 

The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next.

 

Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

Your team

Our engineering team sits within the IG Prime, strengthening IG’s institutional client offering. Our FIX Integrations team builds and maintains the APIs that power IG’s connectivity with institutional clients and partners across global markets. We’re responsible for delivering resilient, high-performance trading and market data integrations that underpin some of IG’s most critical client experiences. 

You will play a key role in creating a new suite of robust trading APIs in the cloud. 

Your role in the Team’s Success 

You'll be at the heart of IG's institutional growth strategy—building the APIs that traders rely on every day. Your work directly enables IG Prime to onboard new clients, expand into new markets, and deliver the low-latency, reliable connectivity that institutional traders demand. You'll help grow the product offering by designing and delivering new API capabilities that meet evolving client needs. Whether you're shipping new features, hardening existing services, or collaborating with stakeholders to solve integration challenges, your contributions will have a real impact. 

What you’ll do

• Develop and maintain IG’s FIX APIs

• Help deliver the IG Prime division’s product roadmap of new functionality

• Provide technical support to IG’s clients and FIX Support teams when required

• Monitor and manage FIX API services with a focus on performance, reliability, and resilience

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to improve processes and deliver excellent service

• Build test harnesses and increase automation across the FIX platform

 

What you’ll need for this role

• Experience with developing external APIs

• A continuous improvement mentality, experience with coding using AI

• Identifies development risks and builds mitigations

• Around 5 years of Java development experience

• Strong concurrent/multithreaded programming skills

• Experience with asynchronous systems (streaming, messaging)

• Experience using the Spring Framework

• Linux proficiency, including shell scripting

• Experience with cloud (ideally AWS) 

 

How we work

We try to take a thoughtful approach to our ways of working as a company. We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office -- which we think balances the need to collaborate effectively and connect with each other. When it comes to how we deliver, there are 5 things we want everyone to do to drive high performance, better learning and career satisfaction:

• Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm

• Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes

• Champion the client: Understand and prioritise client's needs

• Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth

• Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback

We believe that diversity is vital to success, it fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. We're committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills to help us realise our vision and strategy, that's why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us on this journey. Learn more about our D&I approach here.

The Perks

Your growth fuels our success! Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.  

As well as having the chance to attend regular social events and join special-interest groups, you get an attractive selection of benefits working with IG:

• 12% Flexible Benefits Package over and above your base salary, and wide variety of pension, insurance and medical plans to choose from

• Participation in our annual performance-based bonus scheme

• Matched giving for your fundraising activity

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities

• Career-focused technical and leadership trainings in-class and online, incl. unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning platform

• A day off on your birthday 

• Two days’ volunteering leave per year

• Regular coaching and development sessions with senior leadership will help you optimise your leadership impact and identify growth opportunities for both you and your team.

• Regular coaching and development sessions with senior leadership will help you optimise your leadership impact and identify growth opportunities for both you and your team.

Learn more about the Perks here!  

Join us for this exciting journey.

Apply now!

Number of openings

1