Head of UI Platform Engineering

20 hours ago

New York, New York, United States MarketAxess Full time
About Us

MarketAxess is a leading financial technology company that is revolutionizing the way the world trades. Our mission is to create a more efficient, transparent, and accessible financial marketplace.

We are 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. Our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace.

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer/Architect to lead our UI platform team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for front-end technologies and React ecosystems, with a proven track record of architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant trading systems.

The successful candidate will be responsible for defining and implementing a wide range of visual and non-visual Platform Components, including Design System, widgets, Auth, Persistence, Observability, ViewServer, Microfrontend architecture, and more. They will also 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.

The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of experience in progressive software engineering, with 5+ years in a architecture and team leadership role and 5+ years in a cloud computing environment. They will also have experience working in an agile environment with distributed global teams and agile delivery tools, as well as a proven track record of leading design teams and influencing product strategy at senior levels.

Responsibilities
  • 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, and more.
  • 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.
  • 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., OpenFin), (e.g., 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).
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.

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