Senior Software Engineer

at  MarketAxess Holdings

Company Description
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.

HOW YOU’LL HELP TAKE US THERE

• Design and enhance the Leading Global Fixed Income e-trading platform for institutional investors
• Implement sophisticated algorithmic trading strategies for the fixed income markets
• Recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability and time to market
• Be a key technology leader on a scrum team comprised of skilled technology professionals with the goal to revolutionize the corporate bond markets
• Innovate and transform business ideas into highly utilized features and services for our customers
• Share expertise across industry standard technologies including: Java, AWS, Kafka, Oracle, React, Redis Spring Boot, Docker and others
• Implement, maintain, investigate and support products/initiatives from infancy to maturity

• Architect, develop and design APIs in a microservices and/or event-driven architecture

  What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of enterprise software development using Java

• 5+ years of experience implementing features using the FIX trading protocol
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design patterns and multi-threading programming
• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka/Redis etc.
• Experience with microservices using Spring/Spring Boot (or, ideally, hands-on experience migrating a monolithic application to microservices)
• Experience or knowledge of AWS, deployment process, cloud-based technologies
• Experience in capital markets, particularly with trading applications
• Good database skills
• Proficiency in UI technologies, such as React.js, is an advantage.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work within a cross-functional scrum team of developers, product managers, and quality assurance analysts to design and implement new features and products including sophisticated algorithmic trading solutions. You will learn the fixed-income market allowing you to fully understand the “big picture” of not only what you are developing, but why and how it benefits our customers. At the same time, you will learn and apply new technologies and trading strategies that are being introduced to the market by MarketAxess. As an experienced technologist, you will be empowered by having a voice within your scrum team as well as within MarketAxess as a whole.