Job Overview
Location
New York, NY
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
June 22, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Serve as the lead within Interactive Brokers’ Global Sanctions Team to design, write, tune, and maintain sanctions screening rules and matching logic within the Fircosoft Continuity platform.
- • Analyze large volumes of screening alerts, false positives, and outcomes to identify optimization opportunities and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of sanctions screening controls.
- • Support the full lifecycle of screening rules, including requirements gathering, development, testing, implementation, and post-production validation.
- • Collaborate with Global Sanctions, Operations, Cashiering, and Programming teams to execute screening enhancements and coordinate production deployments.
- • Tune and refine fuzzy matching logic, stop word rules, and screening algorithms to reduce alert noise while maintaining compliance accuracy.
- • Maintain comprehensive technical and governance documentation for rule logic, tuning methodologies, and implementation procedures.
- • Identify and implement process improvements to increase operational efficiency, improve screening quality, and streamline alert management workflows.
- • Apply emerging technologies and data-driven approaches to enhance the performance of sanctions screening systems within a high-volume, global brokerage environment.
- • Work in a hybrid model requiring four days per week in the New York, NY office and one day remotely.
- • Engage with cross-functional stakeholders to translate compliance requirements into technical rule specifications and ensure alignment with regulatory expectations.
- • Monitor and evaluate screening system performance against internal KPIs and external regulatory standards.
- • Contribute to the continuous improvement of IBKR’s sanctions compliance framework through proactive analysis and innovation in screening technology.
🎯 Requirements
- • At least five years of experience supporting sanctions screening, AML technology, or financial crime compliance systems within a financial institution, broker-dealer, fintech, or bank.
- • Strong hands-on experience with Fircosoft Continuity platform.
- • Demonstrated experience writing, tuning, testing, and implementing Fircosoft screening rules.
- • Strong understanding of sanctions screening concepts including fuzzy matching, threshold scoring, and false positive reduction methodologies.
- • Bachelor’s Degree required; coursework in information systems, political science, international relations, economics, or financial crime preferred.
- • Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
🏖️ Benefits
- • 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; company-paid medical healthcare premium
- • Daily company lunch allowance and fully stocked kitchen with healthy breakfast and snack options
- • Education reimbursement and learning opportunities
- • Corporate events including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities, and company sports teams
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About Interactive Brokers LLC
Interactive Brokers LLC is a U.S.-regulated electronic brokerage and market maker that provides direct-access trading in stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds, ETFs and funds to individual and institutional clients worldwide. The company operates a consolidated equity capital of over $10 billion, routes orders to more than 150 markets in 33 countries, and offers a proprietary Trader Workstation platform, margin lending, portfolio management tools, research and robo-advisory services through Interactive Advisors. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, it is listed on NASDAQ under ticker IBKR and regulated by SEC, FINRA, NYSE and global authorities.
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