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Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Join a team building useful software. Work closely with engineering and design to turn new ideas into products.
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Securities Lending Trader
- Compensation
- USD 75,000–100,000
- Posted
- 16D AGO
About the role
Minimum hiring rate: 75000
Maximum hiring rate: 100000
Pay currency: USD
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 Hybrid role (4 days in office /1 day remote)
About your Team:
Interactive Brokers is seeking a Securities Lending Trader to join our stock loan desk, where precision, speed, and sound judgment converge daily. In this role, you will manage the full scope of stock loan activity, resolve operational discrepancies with agility, and partner closely with internal teams, broker-dealers, and correspondent firms to ensure every transaction settles accurately and on time.Our Securities Lending team has built a reputation as a forward-thinking, strategically minded, and tightly collaborative desk—one that thrives on anticipating market needs rather than simply reacting to them.
You'll work within IBKR's state-of-the-art proprietary clearing and back-office infrastructure, engaging directly with systems that are constantly evolving to meet the demands of a dynamic market. This is not a role limited to execution; the ideal candidate will play an active part in shaping these systems—identifying opportunities to enhance operational efficiency, strengthen risk controls, and enable new business lines and investment products. If you're energized by the financial markets, driven to solve complex problems, and eager to collaborate with both sophisticated trading systems and the developers who build them, we invite you to bring your expertise to a firm where your contributions will have real impact—and where ambition meets opportunity for growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Execute daily securities borrowing activity, manage recalls, and buy-in exposure risk.
- Investigate and track recalls to address securities shortages and failed deliveries.
- Gather locates for customer short sale requests.
- Assess IBKR borrowing needs and secure borrows to satisfy those obligations.
- Reconcile stock loan contracts, investigate discrepancies, and assist with billing breaks.
- Build strong relationships with brokers (supply) across the street.
- Respond to inquiries from brokers and correspondent firms, working with relevant teams to resolve issues.
- Identify risks and improve processes
What required skill’s you need:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics or Mathematics preferred
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent attention to detail and the drive to efficiently maintain accuracy in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong computer skills and competency with MS Office products, particularly strength in Excel certainly valued
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
To be successful in this position, you will have the following:
- Self-motivated and able to handle tasks with minimal supervision.
- Superb analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent collaboration and communication (Verbal and written) skills.
- Outstanding organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to establish rapport and maintain effective relationships with counterparts.
Company Benefits & Perks
- Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus and stock grant
- Retirement plan 401(k) with competitive company match
- Excellent health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits. Company paid medical healthcare premium.
- Wellness screenings and assessments, health coaches and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Daily company lunch allowance provided and a fully stocked kitchen with healthy options for breakfast and snack
- Corporate events including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities and company sports teams
- Education reimbursement and learning opportunities
