Senior Software Engineer

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The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work within a cross-functional scrum team of developers, product managers, and quality assurance analysts to design and implement new features and products including sophisticated algorithmic trading solutions. You will learn the fixed-income market allowing you to fully understand the “big picture” of not only what you are developing, but why and how it benefits our customers. At the same time, you will learn and apply new technologies and trading strategies that are being introduced to the market by MarketAxess. As an experienced technologist, you will be empowered by having a voice within your scrum team as well as within MarketAxess as a whole.

How You’ll Help Take Us There

• Design and enhance the Leading Global Fixed Income e-trading platform for institutional investors
• Implement sophisticated algorithmic trading strategies for the fixed income markets
• Recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability and time to market
• Be a key technology leader on a scrum team comprised of skilled technology professionals with the goal to revolutionize the corporate bond markets
• Innovate and transform business ideas into highly utilized features and services for our customers
• Share expertise across industry standard technologies including: Java, AWS, Kafka, Oracle, React, Redis Spring Boot, Docker and others
• Implement, maintain, investigate and support products/initiatives from infancy to maturity
• Architect, develop and design APIs in a microservices and/or event-driven architecture

 What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of enterprise software development using Java
• 5+ years of experience implementing features using the FIX trading protocol
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design patterns and multi-threading programming
• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka/Redis etc.
• Experience with microservices using Spring/Spring Boot (or, ideally, hands-on experience migrating a monolithic application to microservices)
• Experience or knowledge of AWS, deployment process, cloud-based technologies
• Experience in capital markets, particularly with trading applications
• Good database skills
• Proficiency in UI technologies, such as React.js, is an advantage.

What You Can Expect from Us 

• Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul's.  
• Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines 
• Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days
• Reward for your service: We offer a two-week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service 
• Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a “Share Incentive” plan
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences 

For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is £105,000 GBP to £130,000 GBP. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs.

Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success – it's how we got to where we are and how we’ll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment. Employees in Technology work in the office 2 or more days a week. This approach still allows for flexibility depending on the business function you work within but also helps us maintain a collaborative office environment long-term.