Senior Software Engineer - Emerging Markets
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 MarketAxess Emerging Markets (EM) business supports over 1,600 market participants in over 120 countries in making electronic trading easier, more efficient and accessible to all. Our EM technology team is seeking an experienced software engineer to aid in the expansion of how our clients reach new corners of EM liquidity. In this role, you will learn the EM landscape and the broader fixed income market to not only understand the “big picture” of what you are developing, but why and how it benefits our customers.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain the company's fixed income trading platform
- Develop the order entry/management system, product enhancements and new workflows for trading, server-side programming and messaging
- Perform above duties utilizing Oracle, Java, Swing, Ant, server-side and client-to-server technology, multi-threading, GUI screens
- Production support, investigating and fixing production issues
- Co-ordinate with your scrum team on a daily basis
- Present technical designs of work performed to the various teams as well as the business
What You Bring to the Table
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
- 5+ years of enterprise software development experience
- Excellent core Java skills
- Enterprise RDBMS (Oracle and/or Sybase)
- Experience with high-speed, high-volume transactional systems
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design patterns
- Extensive experience in multi-threaded programming
- Experience with Test / Behavior-driven development and Test Automation
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Organizational and problem resolution skills
- Spring Boot experience
Extra Credit
- JMS
- JDBC
- Cloud platform experience such as AWS
- Experience with streaming technologies e.g. Kafka/Redis etc. (or similar)
- Experience with JIRA, Gradle, Jenkins pipeline, Git/Bitbucket
- Experience with Agile methodologies
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, 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
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.