Head of UI Platform 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 seek a hands-on Principal engineer/architect to lead our UI 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. You will work with the team to collaborate on software solutions and architecture and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, quality, and good documentation. It's essential to be willing to take on new skills to meet the shifting demands of accelerating our modernization efforts to the public cloud and Kubernetes world.

Feedback from your users should be something that you look forward to, as you will work closely with the Product and Engineering team users to incorporate their needs into the teams roadmap and use it as a measure of success using OKR’s. A critical success factor is being viewed as a trusted partner and collaborator, including business and technology stakeholders.

We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving to encourage 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


Partner with product and engineering leadership on the creation of roadmaps and building out the UI platform that serves as the foundation of all MKTX UI Apps.
Collaborate with Platform Leadership (Cloud Platform, Data Platform, Engineering Enablement) to build out a standardized development pipeline across the firm.
Define and implement a wide range of visual and non-visual Platform Components, including Design System, widgets, Auth, Persistence, Observability, ViewServer, Microfrontend architecture, ...etc.
Provide technical vision, drive strategy around solutions, solve complex problems, and act as the technical owner across strategic efforts involving the UI/UX platform, Cloud, streaming, machine learning, and more.
Provide the team with thought leadership to promote reuse and develop consistent, resilient, scalable patterns.
Provide regular Knowledge Sharing Sessions to UI Teams, manage training materials, and oversee internal Tech Community channels.
Collaborate with the Head of UX Design to define and build our Desktop strategy
Establish new standards and best practices – promote Open Source development practices, including RFC-s and ADR-s for platform-level technical decisions.
Evaluate innovative technologies and participate in decision-making while aligning with our reference architectures, maintainability, and cost of ownership. 
Ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.
Evaluate and recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability, and time to market.
Promote and implement modern, container-based end-to-end development workflows, incl. DevContainers, TestContainers, containerized builds, K8S deployment, ...etc.
Collaborating with department architects, seeing opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience, or perform capability rationalization.
Help to build a high-performance team through staff development, recruiting, and retention to support growing business needs.  
Mentor software engineers on the team and, through code reviews, ensure that all work meets team and industry standards.
Communicate company and departmental vision, expectations, goals, and deadlines, and motivate your team through inspirational leadership.  


What We're Looking For


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)
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


What You Can Expect from Us


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


For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $250,000 USD to $300,000 USD. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs.

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