MarketAxess
The fixed-income markets represent an enormous global marketplace, where only a fraction of average daily trade volume occurs electronically. Believe it or not, most fixed-income trades are still executed via phone or blotter, providing us with a significant opportunity for disruption and future growth.
We believe this market is ripe for disruption and have created a proprietary electronic platform that connects the world’s most influential financial institutions to the world’s largest capital market. Since 2015, MarketAxess has grown from roughly 300 employees to approximately 700 with offices across seven countries and annual revenue has more than doubled. We’re excited about the growth opportunities ahead and have built a fast-paced, collaborative, environment where all employees are empowered to make a material impact. We hope you’ll come join us!
Job Description
If you are graduating in December 2023 or May 2024 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 Product Managers, and technology developers in the development of real-time fixed income trading systems. You will be part of 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 working with the product team
- Perform analysis to understand how the trading system works and provide scrum team with details on the features to be developed
- Help organize and maintain feature/story backlogs and sprints
- Help add detail and elaborate on user stories
- Communicate effectively with sales and client support staff to ensure they understand the priority, features developed, and can adequately explain them to clients
- Learn more about the product that the scrum team is working on
What You Bring to the Table
- Working towards a bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar, graduating in Dec 2023 or May 2024
- 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
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Knowledge of RDMBS, Jira, Jira Align, MS Visio, Word, Excel, Photoshop/Ulead Photo Impact (or equivalent graphics package for screenshots), and basic SQL queries would be great
For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $35.00 USD to $40.00 USD per hour. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
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 legally protected characteristic in the location in which the candidate is applying.
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