Head of UI Platform Engineering Job at MarketAxess Holdings in New York

Company Description

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 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.

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. 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.

How You'll Help Take Us There

• Partner with product and engineering leadership on the creation of roadmaps and building out the UI platform.
• Collaborate with Platform Leadership to build out a standardized development pipeline across the firm.
• Define and implement a wide range of visual and non-visual Platform Components.
• Provide technical vision, drive strategy around solutions, solve complex problems, and act as the technical owner across strategic efforts.
• Provide the team with thought leadership to promote reuse and develop consistent, resilient, scalable patterns.
• Provide regular Knowledge Sharing Sessions to UI Teams.
• Collaborate with the Head of UX Design to define and build our Desktop strategy.
• Establish new standards and best practices.
• Evaluate innovative technologies and participate in decision-making.
• Ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.
• Promote and implement modern, container-based end-to-end development workflows.
• Collaborate with department architects, seeing opportunities to refactor business processes.
• Help to build a high-performance team through staff development, recruiting, and retention.
• Mentor software engineers on the team and ensure that all work meets team and industry standards.
• Communicate company and departmental vision, expectations, and goals.

What We're Looking For

• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with 5+ in an architecture and team leadership role.
• 7+ years' experience working in an agile environment with distributed global teams.
• 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.
• Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions.
• Advanced technical expertise and knowledge of software development.
• Ability to articulate and document architectural decisions at a senior executive level.
• A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective partnerships.
• Strong presentation skills; written and verbal communication.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.

What You Can Expect from Us

• Hybrid Environment: Mix of working in the office and from home.
• Free Food: Free lunch for employees in the office.
• Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO package.
• 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: Purchase MarketAxess common stock at a discount.
• Wellness Stipend: Up to $1K annually towards wellness.
• Onsite Healthcare: Access to world-class care.
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Development.
• Core benefits: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs.

For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $250,000 USD to $300,000 USD.

MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons.

All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.