Senior Frontend Engineer

Posted:
8/27/2024, 4:19:16 AM

Location(s):
England, United Kingdom ⋅ London, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

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

We are seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our AxessIQ Private Banking Trading team who will have an active part in building out our next generation front end. The ideal candidate is someone who has demonstrated experience architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant trading systems across a range of technologies. You are excited to work with a tech stack that spans Typescript, React, NoSQL databases, cloud services, and more. 

We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving and encouraging all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning. We openly welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions and prior ways of working.  Otherwise, how do we innovate, learn and grow as a team and individuals? 

How You’ll Help Take Us There

  • Hands-on development of new functionality and maintain the company's fixed income e-trading platform for institutional credit product trading focusing on UX/UI and customer experience
  • Build re-usable components to be compatible across product lines
  • Participate in analyzing, designing, writing, and testing code, documenting, and implementing functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated application systems
  • This is completed in accordance with product manager’s vision, customer requirements, and organizational methodologies and standards
  • Work through all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, requirements, implementation, unit testing, functional testing, and postproduction release support 

What We’re Looking For

  • 4+ years’ enterprise software development experience within the JavaScript/TypeScript development stack
  • 2+ years’ experience with ReactJS with hooks
  • Experience including analysis, design, coding, and implementation of large-scale custom-built object-oriented applications
  • Professional experience with UI/UX design (we use Figma for designs)
  • Professional experience working with AG-Grid
  • Professional experience working with Redux
  • Professional experience working with Git, Git Flow
  • Knowledge of CSS preprocessors, (eg. SASS/ LESS/CSS-in-JS/Tailwind)
  • Experience testing with Jest/React Testing Library
  • Desirable experience with DevOps tools
  • Desirable experience with Websockets
  • Desirable experience with ES6, Styled Components, Material UI
  • Desirable experience with OpenFin
  • Desirable experience in Finance, specifically trading
  • Familiar with Agile Methodology 

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.