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Emerging Market Corporate & Sovereign Bonds • BondTicker • Credit Default Swaps • Eurobonds • Fixed Income ETFs
501 - 1000
Head of UI and UX Platform Engineering
August 5
🏢 In-office - London
MarketAxess
Now you're in the market.
Emerging Market Corporate & Sovereign Bonds • BondTicker • Credit Default Swaps • Eurobonds • Fixed Income ETFs
501 - 1000
Description
• We are seeking a hands-on Principal engineer/architect to lead our UI/UX platform team who has a passion and expertise for front-end technologies and React ecosystems. • The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant trading systems across various technologies. • You care about the Platform's business processes, data, application, and technical architecture components, which are Hybrid Cloud in our data centers and Public Cloud providers (e.g., AWS). • As a full-stack engineer, you are excited to work with a tech stack that spans React, Typescript, Node, GraphQL, Kafka, Mongo Atlas, and more. • You are a thought leader, ideally actively contributing externally and in the open-source space. • You should be passionate about technology, architecture, software engineering, data, quality, and innovatively addressing business problems.
Requirements
• 12+ years of experience of progressive software engineering experience, with 5+ in a architecture and team leadership role and 5+ in a cloud computing environment • 7+ years' experience working in an agile environment with distributed global teams and agile delivery tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) • 5+ years of experience in UX design, interaction design • Must have E-trading and financial services industry experience • Prior experience leading a global team • Proven track record leading design teams and influencing product strategy at senior levels • Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions, with experience designing for fintech is a plus • Advanced technical expertise and knowledge of • Software development with Java, web application technologies (TypeScript, React, GraphQL), event-driven, event-streaming and service-oriented architectures • Cloud-native application architecture • API and microservices architecture • Streaming and event processing architectures and platforms (e.g., Kafka) • Desktop interoperability (e.g., Here.io (ex. OpenFin), Interop.io (ex. Glue42 + Finsemble)) • Structured and unstructured databases and usage patterns • High-speed, high-volume, high-frequency transaction processing systems • Real-time logging, monitoring, and resiliency approaches • Automated testing practices and frameworks (Playwright or Cypress) • Process automation approaches and tooling (e.g., DevOps and AIOps) • Ability to articulate and document architectural decisions and roadmaps at a senior executive level • A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods: agile development, continuous integration, code review or pairing, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches • Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; demonstrated ability to employ fact-based decision-making to resolve complex problems by applying logic analysis, experience, and business knowledge • Proven ability to build and maintain effective, trusting partnerships with product managers, architects and technical leads for individual products and applications • Experience with OKR’s is a plus • Strong presentation skills; written and verbal communication including the ability to influence • BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject
Benefits
• 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
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