Lead Software Engineer

The Role

We’re looking for a hands-on Lead Engineer with a strong passion and proven expertise in e-trading domain. In this role, you'll lead a talented squad of five engineers, driving both technical execution and team development. Responsibilities include Architect and deliver core components of the next-gen platform, set and guide team and individual goals, conduct performance reviews and manage compensation, mentor and grow a high-performing engineering team.

The ideal candidate is someone who has demonstrated experience in building and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant Trading platforms across a range of technologies. You should be passionate about technology, architecture, software engineering and 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, 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 to incorporate their needs into the team’s roadmap and use it as a measure of success. 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 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

You will demonstrate competencies across five key dimensions: 

• Interpreting business needs and setting strategy - Provide technical vision, drive strategy around solutions, solve complex problems, and act as the technical owner across strategic efforts for which your team(s) are responsible. 

• Project Execution and Applying Technology - Own the services your team delivers – from requirements gathering, design, development, testing, to production – and support the platform, while establishing repeatable processes and methods that ensure high productivity, quality, and reliability. 

• Providing Architecture Guidance - Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the firms target-state architecture vision. Create deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment. 

• Team Leadership & People Management - Lead a team of engineers in designing and implementing well-architected, cloud-native solutions that elevate the experience for both clients and internal engineering teams. Provide mentorship through code reviews and technical guidance, while actively managing team dynamics, including goal setting, performance feedback, and career development to ensure all work aligns with team and industry standards.

• Assessing Technology - Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as understanding emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business capabilities. 

What You Bring to the Table 

• 10+ years of experience of progressive software engineering experience, with 5+ in cloud computing environment (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, data, and platforms).
• Adept at building client-side applications using React and TypeScript and have strong experience in designing and implementing GraphQL schemas.
• 3+ years of streaming and event processing architectures and platforms (e.g., Kafka).
• Have a strong understanding of UX/UI design principles and a passion for creating intuitive user interfaces.
• Ability to plan, estimate, and manage the technical aspects of project execution and delivery.
• Have a product mindset that is deeply empathetic to customer needs, strategic in orientation, and metrics and outcomes-driven.
• Are comfortable working with ambiguity and adapting to changing requirements, with a proactive bias towards action. 
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt. 
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences. 
• Minimum of 3 years of direct people management experience leading global teams.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• E-trading and financial services industry experience. 

What We’re Looking for  

• A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods: agile development, continuous integration, code review or pairing, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches.
• Ability to articulate and document architectural decisions and roadmaps at a senior executive level. 
• Demonstrated ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations. 
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective, trusting partnerships with product managers, architects and technical leads for individual products and applications. 
• Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives.  
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business, IT leaders and engineering teams.  
• Technology neutral: remains unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice and is more interested in results than personal preferences. 
• Displays humility, drive, intellectual curiosity, and integrity. 
• Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes. 
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams. 

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 $200,000 USD to $260,000 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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