About the position
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. Our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our next-Gen Trading Platform who has a passion and expertise for front-end technologies and React ecosystems. The ideal candidate is someone who has demonstrated experience architecting, building and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant trading systems across a range of technologies. You will work with the team to collaborate on software solutions and architecture and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, and good documentation. 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.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on development of new functionality and maintain the company's fixed income e-trading platform for institutional credit product trading focusing on UX/UI and customer experience
- Participate in analyzing, designing, writing, and testing code, documenting, and implementing functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated application systems
- Be a core member of an agile team driving the team's agile and development practices, writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation
- Train, pair with other team members
Requirements
- 7+ years' enterprise software development experience within the JavaScript/TypeScript development stack
- 4+ years' experience with ReactJS with hooks
- Professional experience working with AG-Grid
- Professional experience working with Redux
- Professional experience working with Git, Git Flow
- Knowledge of CSS preprocessors, (eg. SASS/ LESS/CSS-in-JS/Tailwind)
- Experience testing with Jest/React Testing Library/Cypress/Playwright
Nice-to-haves
- Desirable experience with DevOps tools
- Desirable experience with Websockets
- Desirable experience with ES6, Styled Components, Material UI
- Desirable experience with OpenFin
- Familiar with Agile Methodology
Benefits
- Hybrid Environment: Our employees enjoy a mix of working in the office and from home
- Free Food: We provide free lunch for employees when they are working in the office. Plus, our offices are stocked with snacks
- Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO package including vacation and personal days, sick leave and charity days
- Generous Parental Leave: Up to 20 weeks fully paid leave
- 401(k): Dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $17,500
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Employees can purchase MarketAxess common stock at a discount
- Wellness Stipend: We provide employees with up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more
- Onsite Healthcare: We offer convenient access to world-class care through Mount Sinai at our Hudson Yards location
- Tuition Assistance and Professional Development: Benefit from live and on-demand learning, role-specific training, employee-led Lunch and Learns and guest speakers
- Core benefits: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
