Trading Software Engineer Intern 2025

The Role

There is no better way to experience what a career at MarketAxess has to offer than through our internship programme. As a 2025 Summer intern with MarketAxess, you will grow your skills through on-the-job training and professional development classroom training. You will participate in projects working on problems, providing community service and enjoying social events. You will be well supported, receiving regular feedback from your manager to aid your professional development and will have a dedicated buddy. Our summer internship programme offers the opportunity to build new skills, grow your professional network and provides an in-depth insight into career possibilities at MarketAxess.

This is a full-time paid internship to commence on 2 June and concludes on 1 August 2024

How You’ll Take Us There  

Our Technology Summer Internship Programme, for penultimate year university students, is a pipeline into our Technology Graduate Programme. It has been crafted to simulate our Technology Graduate Programme so that you can understand what a career in technology at MarketAxess would really be like.

General Responsibilities Include:

• Understand agile process
• Understand business requirements
• Participate in software design
• Provide time estimates
• Write code and unit tests
• Participate in code reviews
• Fix any bugs and demo to the stakeholders

What We’re Looking for 

• Penultimate year student graduating in 2026
• Right to Work in the location you are applying
• Good understanding of various data structures and algorithms
• Well-versed in modern application design paradigms and patterns
• Experience in development/willingness to learn Java and Java based server-side frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Understanding of browser-based technologies/willingness to learn (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React, AngularJS, AJAX).
• Curiosity/interest related to cloud technologies and cloud design patterns (AWS)
• Basic knowledge of enterprise RDBMS such as Oracle, Sybase or SQL Server
• Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational and problem resolution skills
• Team player and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to function well in a competitive, challenging environment, and the ability to deal with changing priorities
• Individuals who can connect the dots and think creatively
• You should be interested in financial markets and how technology supports our business

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