Applications Developer - Intern
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.
If you are graduating in December 2021 or May 2022 and are interested in exploring a career that places you at the crossroads of financial services and technology, please read more about our opportunity below.
The development of our trading functionality and data services is at the core of our business. Our Technology team includes product specific trading teams, a group that works on connectivity to our institutional investor clients and broker-dealer clients, data and analytics, and web-based development.
What You’ll Do
In this position, you will work with other developers, architects, test engineers and product management in the development of real-time fixed income trading systems. You will join an Agile Scrum team whose goal is to build new products and enhance existing ones. Being on an Agile Scrum team, you will be asked to engage in the following activities daily:
- Understand business requirements
- Participate in software design
- Provide time estimates
- Write code and unit tests
- Participate in code reviews
- Fix bugs
What You Bring to the Table
- Working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar (Master’s degree preferred)
- Good understanding of various data structures and algorithms
- Well-versed in modern application design paradigms and patterns
- Exposure to JAVA programming language
- Basic knowledge of enterprise RDBMS (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server)
- Experience with one of the following Enterprise Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
- Experience in development/willingness to learn Java based server-side framework (Spring Boot)
- Understanding of browser-based technologies/willingness to learn (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React, AngularJS, AJAX)
- Curiosity/interest related to cloud technologies and cloud design patterns (AWS)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational and problem resolution skills
- Team player and strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to function well in a competitive, challenging environment, and the ability to deal with changing priorities
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
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.