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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. 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
You’ll grow to be a Financial Technology professional able to work autonomously as part of a distributed cross-functional, Agile delivery Team.
How You’ll Help Take Us There
- Developing software components as per the project delivery plan.
- Designing test suites for automation in order to validate functional and non-functional requirements.
- Keeping up to date with new developments and strategies within their area and the general IT marketplace.
- Offering ideas, advice and support with regard to improvement initiatives within the team.
- To do what is necessary to ensure all team tasks are completed on schedule.
- Working closely with Product Owners, Developers and Client Support staff.
What We’re Looking For
- Recent/final year grad (2021-2023) with a relevant degree
- Demonstrable skills on the full software development lifecycle
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Demonstrable skill with core Java skills
- Demonstrable skill with Front End (GUI) technologies (React, JavaScript, html5)
- Demonstrable unit testing skills
- Prepared to learn test automation toolkit and write scripts if required
- Prepared to learn DevOps skills
- Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design patterns
- Agile Ways of Working, preferably SAFe frameworks.
- Communication & collaboration are paramount to the cross-functional scrum operating effectively
- Languages: English
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
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.
