Associate Software Engineer (Quant Developer)
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
The Quant Developer will work within our Data group and partner with one of our four main scrum teams to implement industry-leading bond pricing algorithms, pre- and post-trade analytics, visualization (BI) tools, and other data-intensive applications. The individual will be exposed to projects involving distribution, UI, bond calculations, quantitative analysis, and market leading data products.
This will include leveraging our extensive global proprietary data assets and work closely with leading developers, architects, and product management within the fixed-income fintech space.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and implement highly complex Research products across all aspects of our electronic trading and related systems.
- Support Research innovation through the creative and aggressive experimentation of cutting-edge hardware, software, processes, procedures, and methods.
- Partner closely with the Technology team to ensure appropriate standards and integration.
What You Bring to the Table
- Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science or similar.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in fixed income, e-trading, or similar.
- Proficiency in programming and statistical languages including R, Python, Java, JavaScript, and similar.
- Experience with AWS, APIs, large datasets, machine learning, web development incl. real-time data handling and visualization, and Agile is preferred.
- Strong analytical / problem solving skills
- 1-2 years’ experience with Machine learning
- 2-5 years’ experience in Java
- 2-3 years’ experience working with technologies like Pandas/Numpy
- 1-3 years’ experience writing Cloud Formation Templates / building AWS stack
- Exceptional quantitative and analytical skills.
- Strong written, verbal, and team communications skills
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience building apps using Apache Spark
- Exposure to R
- Nix, docker, shell scripting experience
- Knowledge of Kafka and/or messaging technologies
- Experience using git (bitbucket), Jenkins / other CICD tools
What’s In It For You?
- In addition to working on cutting edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:
- Healthcare and wellness options
- 401(k) match
- 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
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.