What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trading System Engineer - Java + Modern Tech position at MarketAxess?
Company Description
Over the last twenty years, MarketAxess has completely revolutionized the fixed-income market by creating a single platform using proprietary technology that connects the world’s most influential financial institutions. Today, more than 1,800 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms rely on us to bring them accurate market data to assist with their trading decisions, connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing and technology services to optimize trading environments. As a Wall Street FinTech firm, we believe in disruptive innovation and the endless pursuit of efficiency.
Job Description
As a Trading System Engineer, you will work closely with your team to design and implement new features and products. You will learn advanced trading markets, enabling 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 be challenged and pushed out of your comfort zone, by directly working with the business unit and learning new and innovative technologies. Above all, you will be challenged within your domain and responsibilities from day 1 and will be sought after for creative and new ways to approach problems (both technical and business related).
What You'll Do
- Design and enhance the Leading Global Fixed Income e-trading platform for institutional investors
- Be part of a scrum team comprised of skilled technology professionals with the goal to revolutionize the credit and corporate bond markets
- Innovate and transform business ideas into highly utilized features and services for our customers
- Use and gain expertise across industry standard technologies including: Java, AWS, Kafka, Oracle, React, Redis Spring Boot and others
- Implement and support products/initiatives from infancy to maturity
- Develop and design APIs in a microservices and/or event-driven architecture
What You Bring to the Table
- 2 years of enterprise software development using Java
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented design patterns and exposure to multi-threading programming
- Experience with a combination of the following technologies:
- Streaming technologies such as Kafka/Redis etc.
- Microservices using Spring/Spring Boot (or, ideally, hands-on experience migrating a monolithic application to containerized microservices)
- Cloud services specific to AWS
- HTML5 and React
- Track record for delivering successful solutions to your clients
What’s in it for You
- In addition to working on cutting edge technology and being more than a number in our lean and collaborative team, we offer:
- Healthcare and wellness options
- 401(k) match
- Potential to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Training, tuition assistance and time for R&D
- Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships, exercise equipment and similar, and access to on-site healthcare
Additional Information
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 characteristic prohibited by federal and state law.