Data Engineer
Company Description
MarketAxess operates a leading trading platform that enables fixed-income market participants to efficiently trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments using MarketAxess' patented trading technology. Over 1,800 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms are active users of the MarketAxess trading platform. MarketAxess also offers a number of trading-related products and services, including: market data to assist Customers with trading decisions; connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing; technology services to optimize trading environments; and execution services for exchange-traded fund managers and other Customers. Through its Trax® division, MarketAxess also offers a range of pre- and post-trade services, including trade matching, regulatory transaction reporting and market and reference data, across a range of fixed-income products.
MarketAxess maintains its headquarters in New York and has offices in London, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Amsterdam, São Paulo, Singapore, and Hong Kong. MarketAxess is an independent, publicly traded company (NASDAQ:MKTX Click Here). There is a lot more to learn about us and working at our company! Please read more about us at www.marketaxess.com.
Job Description
This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic engineer to join the MarketAxess development team working in a fast-paced environment. S/he will be part of the team working on company’s architectural modernization effort, building data platform for analytical processing, as well as transaction processing. We are seeking skilled technologists who have strong technical skills as well as the leadership characteristics required to guide others from a technical perspective. This position will require that the candidate work together not only with other technologists but also with business colleagues.
What You'll Do
- Work side by side with the development engineers to deliver high quality product
- Drive the creation and execution of test strategy and test plans
- Design, develop, and maintenance quality assurance framework for data and pipeline infrastructure
- Leverage tools to proactively monitor, capture, and alert quality issues
- Define, measure, and report quality metrics via dashboard
What You Bring to the Table
- 4+ years of working experience as a quality engineer
- Hands on experience with test automation using a programming language or a scripting language (Java and Python is preferred)
- Good understanding AWS infrastructure and services
- Solid knowledge of SQL, especially analytical functions
- Have experience working with terabytes of data
- Experience with tools in AWS to monitor and support cloud based solutions, such as Datadog
- Experience in infrastructure as code technologies, such as Terraform, Helm Charts and CloundFormation
- Agile development
- AWS CloudFormation
- Application of machine learning techniques for data quality
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Organizational and problem resolution skills
- The profile of a team-player who forms strong relationships with colleagues and has good interpersonal skills
- Ability to deal with changing priorities
Additional Information
Benefits and Perks
In addition to working on cutting edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:
- Work in our brand new offices at 55 Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan
- Free snacks and coffee as well as occasional lunches and after-work drinks
- Casual dress-code
- Healthcare options
- 401(k) match
- Training and tuition assistance
- Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships and similar, and access to on-site healthcare
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.