Senior Software Engineer, Kafka

October 22

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MarketAxess

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Emerging Market Corporate & Sovereign Bonds • BondTicker • Credit Default Swaps • Eurobonds • Fixed Income ETFs

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 Venture Round on 2001-03

Description

• About Us • 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. • The Role • We are seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join our next-Gen Trading Platform who has a passion and prior expertise in building a next-gen cloud based, streaming microservices at scale and power our application modernization plans. • How You'll Help Take Us There • Provide technical implementation and guidance around test first development model • Implement and support products/initiatives from infancy to maturity • Requirements capture and product mindset (functional, and non-functional) • 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 and mentor junior team members

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience of extensive Java engineering experience • Experience with stream processing using KafkaStreams, Flink or other streaming runtimes • Expert understanding of Java, Gradle and quality related tooling, Checkstyle, SpotBugs, DependaBot, Junit, system and integration testing (TestContainers) • Comprehensive understanding of CICD, GitOps and experience with building and deploying pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions (or similar) • Experience with data architecture, data modeling, schema design, and development • Real-world experience with distributed systems using Apache Kafka and Streaming architectures • Experience working with multi-terabyte data sets, troubleshooting issues, and performance tuning • Good understanding of product management, agile principles, and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt

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