Associate Software Engineer - Municipal Bonds
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.
Job Description
As an Associate Software Engineer, you will work closely with your team to design and implement new features and products. 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 be challenged and pushed out of your comfort zone, working with other pockets of the business and learning new and exciting technologies that we are seeking to implement. Above all, you will be empowered by having a voice within your Scrum team as well as within MarketAxess as a whole.
What You’ll do
- Build upon the Leading Global Fixed Income e-trading platform for institutional investors, adding new features and enhancements
- 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
- Implement and support products/initiatives from infancy to maturity
- Over time, support the development and design of APIs in a microservices and/or event-driven architecture in the cloud
What You Bring to the Table
- 2-3 years of enterprise software development using Java
- Excellent at object-oriented design patterns and programming concepts
- Experience working with multi-threaded platforms
- Proficiency in SQL and hands on experience with RDBMS (e.g. Oracle)
- Experience with AWS
- Passion to be challenged and excited about the ability to be pushed out of your comfort zone!
- Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka/Redis etc.
- Experience with microservices using Spring/Spring Boot (or ideally migrating from the monolith to microservices)
- Proven experience using React or Angular
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 and tuition assistance
- Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships, exercise equipment 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.
Additional Information
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