At MarketAxess, we're transforming an industry. No, really. We are a driving force in revolutionizing the way the $100 trillion+ credit market trades bonds, moving away from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. We're a 22-year-old company that feels like a start-up and is in high growth mode, but with the stability and resources of an established company that's proven we're here to stay. Here, you'll have a ton of autonomy and ownership, work shoulder-to-shoulder with experienced leaders, and feel the fire and immense pride in tackling the possibilities that lie ahead. Our developers are directly responsible for modernizing our trading platform and reshaping our company to be at the forefront of innovation in technology. We may not be a consumer-facing product that your friends use, but what we're doing is truly transformative with enormous potential.
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Team size & roles
We have 16 scrum teams globally. Each scrum team operates as its own "company" within MarketAxess and works on different features of our trading platform. They are comprised of:
- 3-5 Developers (+1 Solution Architect)
- 1 Product Owner, 1 Product Manager
- 1 Scrum Master
- 1 Sales Representative
- 2-4 Quality Assurance
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Collaboration Practices
- Followers of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
- Quarterly PI (Program Increment) Planning
- 5 active delivery sprints and 1 IP (Innovation and Planning) sprint per cycle
- 2-week active delivery sprints, 3-week IP sprints
- Daily team standups
- Quarterly performance reviews with manager based on team/peer/360-degree feedback
- Teams rated on predictability, commitments, goals
- Team ownership of code repositories
- Peer reviewed code check-ins
- Automated testing of features
- Monthly company-wide town halls
Hours & location
- Mixed on-site and remote
- Flexible work hours
Tools we use
- Java
- Spring Boot/Spring
- Oracle RDBMS
- Kafka
- Redis
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
- AWS
Useful links
- Learn more about us and what we do on the “About Us” page of our website.
- Get familiar with our team culture and working style by reading InsideAxess (our culture blog) or this Built In NYC article.
- See where we ranked on Built In NYC's 2022 Best Places to Work, Best Large Places to Work, Best Paying Companies and Best Benefits lists
- Read about what we've been up to in this WSJ article about how we're applying learnings from big tech and this blog post that recaps a meetup we co-hosted with H2O.ai.
Company-level stats
- B2B
- CEO is a founder
- Publicly traded