Senior Platform Engineer
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 1,700 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.
This Platform Engineer will play a hands-on role driving the application platforms within the organization. This individual will be responsible for all the aspects of the application platform and security. S/he will work closely influencing Business Sponsors, Scrum Masters and Peer Architects while driving MarketAxess’ digital modernization efforts.
MarketAxess is seeking an individual who is looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to help change and influence the future of MarketAxess applications and products. As a member the architecture team, you will supply to the modernization of MarketAxess. You will work with architecture and application teams to help cultivate innovation, drive standardization and deliver on new technology patterns across the stack. You will drive product roadmap evolution in conjunction with business unit product goals. You will provide leadership in adoption of platforms and consolidation across department initiatives.
Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and operate internal multi-tenant platforms like container orchestration runtimes (e.g. Kubernetes), event streaming (e.g. Kafka), persistent storage (e.g. Redis).
- Providing leadership in Proof of Concepts (POCs) for assessment of technical and business benefits.
- Growing our agile development culture through use of excellent engineering skills and a deep knowledge of DevOps methodologies.
- Ability to drive platform architecture design and ownership and articulate architecture solution options to product owners and architecture leadership.
- Evaluate and recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability, and time to market.
- Demonstrate ability to analyze business direction and problems, understand long term vision and risk in developing strategic technical solutions. Work closely with Product/Application teams in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation and configuration.
- Collaborating with peer architects seeing opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
Who You Are
- Strong experience with multiple high level programming languages (Java, Golang, Python preferred)
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Twelve Factor App methodologies
- Deep hands-on experience in orchestration container platforms (cloud or on-premises)
- Deeply committed to complete automation of the complete SDLC
- Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and configuration tooling (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible, Chef) preferred
- Experience with event streaming patterns a plus
- Proven ability to build and maintain effective, trusting partnerships with product managers, architects and technical leads for individual products and applications.
- Proven and comprehensive knowledge of APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies.
- Ability to work both independently and with all levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of industry experience in an architecture and/or software engineering role
- Your ability to provide technical leadership and hands on day-to-day solutions to agile teams, preparing the design artifacts and implementation of solutions.
- Your deep understanding of messaging and caching platforms
- Your proven track record of critical thinking, with the ability to translate business needs into technology solutions.
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
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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