About Us
MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.
The Role
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join our next-Gen Trading Platform who has a passion and prior expertise in building a next-gen cloud based, streaming microservices at scale and power our application modernization plans.
You should be passionate about technology, architecture, software engineering and quality, and innovatively addressing business problems. You will work with the team to collaborate on software solutions and architecture and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, and good documentation. It's essential to be willing to take on new skills to meet the shifting demands of accelerating our modernization efforts to the public cloud and Kubernetes world.
We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving and encouraging all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning. We openly welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions and prior ways of working. Otherwise, how do we innovate, learn and grow as a team and individuals?
How You'll Help Take Us There
- Provide technical implementation and guidance around test first development model
- Implement and support products/initiatives from infancy to maturity
- Requirements capture and product mindset (functional, and non-functional)
- Be a core member of an agile team driving the team's agile and development practices, writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation
- Train, pair and mentor junior team members
What We’re Looking for
- 6+ years of experience of extensive Java engineering experience
- Experience with stream processing using KafkaStreams, Flink or other streaming runtimes
- Expert understanding of Java, Gradle and quality related tooling, Checkstyle, SpotBugs, DependaBot, Junit, system and integration testing (TestContainers)
- Comprehensive understanding of CICD, GitOps and experience with building and deploying pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions (or similar)
- Experience with data architecture, data modeling, schema design, and development
- Real-world experience with distributed systems using Apache Kafka and Streaming architectures
- Experience working with multi-terabyte data sets, troubleshooting issues, and performance tuning
- Good understanding of product management, agile principles, and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
Competencies
- A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods: agile development, continuous integration, code review or pairing, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches
- Ability to articulate and document architectural decisions and roadmaps at a senior executive level
- Demonstrated ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations
- Proven ability to build and maintain effective, trusting partnerships with product managers, architects, and technical leads for individual products and applications
- Ability to handle competing priorities flexibly and address each in an effective and timely manner in a fast-paced working environment
Characteristics
- Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice and is more interested in results than personal preferences
- Displays humility, drive, intellectual curiosity, and integrity
- Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes
What You Can Expect from Us
- Hybrid Environment: Our employees enjoy a mix of working in the office and from home
- Free Food: We provide free lunch for employees when they are working in the office. Plus, our offices are stocked with snacks
- Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO package including vacation and personal days, sick leave and charity days
- Generous Parental Leave: Up to 20 weeks fully paid leave
- 401(k): Dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $17,500
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Employees can purchase MarketAxess common stock at a discount
- Wellness Stipend: We provide employees with up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more
- Onsite Healthcare: We offer convenient access to world-class care through Mount Sinai at our Hudson Yards location
- Tuition Assistance and Professional Development: Benefit from live and on-demand learning, role-specific training, employee-led Lunch and Learns and guest speakers
- Core benefits: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $150,000 USD to $225,00 USD. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs.
MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic in the location in which the candidate is applying.
All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
