MarketAxess
Lead Software Engineer
New York, New York, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
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About the role
- You should be passionate about technology, architecture, software engineering and quality, and innovatively addressing business problems.
- It's essential to be willing to take on new skills to meet the shifting demands of accelerating our modernization efforts to the public cloud and Kubernetes world.
- Feedback from your users should be something that you look forward to, as you will work closely with the Product and Engineering to incorporate their needs into the team's roadmap and use it as a measure of success.
Responsibilities
- You will work with the team to collaborate on software solutions and architecture and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, and good documentation.
- Create deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
- Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives.
- What You Can Expect from Us
Nice to have
- E-trading and financial services industry, FIX Protocol experience is a plus.
- Free Food: We provide free lunch for employees when they are working in the office.
- Plus, our offices are stocked with snacks
Compensation
- Wellness Stipend: We provide employees with up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more
Benefits
- Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
- You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs.
Company info
- MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one's ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we're going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.
- The Role
- We are seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to join our team who has a passion and expertise in helping us build our next-gen Trading Workstation.
- The ideal candidate is someone who has demonstrated experience in building and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant Trading platforms across a range of technologies. You should be passionate about technology, architecture, software engineering and quality, and innovatively addressing business problems. You will work with the team to collaborate on software solutions and architecture and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, and good documentation.
- Interpreting business needs and setting strategy
- Provide technical vision, drive strategy around solutions, solve complex problems, and act as the technical owner across strategic efforts for which your team(s) are responsible.
- Project Execution and Applying Technology
- Own the services your team delivers - from requirements gathering, design, development, testing, to production - and support the platform, while establishing repeatable processes and methods that ensure high productivity, quality, and reliability.
- Providing Architecture Guidance
- Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the firms target-state architecture vision. Create deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment.
- Team Leadership
- Lead a team of engineers in identifying and implementing well-architected, cloud-native solutions that deliver the best possible experience for our clients and engineering teams. Mentor software engineers on the team, and through code reviews, ensure that all work meets team and industry standards.
- Assessing Technology
- Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as understanding emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business capabilities.
Equal opportunity
- All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Visa & Work Authorization
- ion 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 orient
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