About Us
MarketAxess is 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. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.
The Role
In this position, you will work with closely with Product Management team members, Developers, QA representatives and other stakeholders responsible to help us build our state-of-the-art trading system for fixed income. You will be part of an Agile Scrum team whose goal is to build new products and enhance existing ones. You’ll interact with business and technical stakeholders across the firm who help support these initiatives and are responsible for their adoption by our clients. Adding to a well-rounded experience, you will interact heavily with intern colleagues and work on rewarding group projects together.
How You’ll Take Us There
- Gain knowledge about how the trading system works and how the team fits into the broader product landscape at MarketAxess.
- Learn skills to help Product Managers implement Agile methodologies and leverage the required tools to manage feature backlogs
- Work within a scrum team, to understand their workflow as they execute solutions.
- Learn about and document the business requirements that underpin these solutions.
- Participate in team ceremonies including daily stand ups.
- Organize group projects around meaningful company initiatives.
- Communicate effectively with sales and client support staff to ensure they understand the details of features developed so that they can adequately explain them to clients.
What We’re Looking for
- Working towards a bachelor's or master's degree in business, product management, mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Sciences, or similar, graduating in 2026
- Right to work in the UK permanently without employment visa sponsorship required now or in the future
- Inquisitive and curious nature and boldness in finding answers from stakeholders across the firm
- Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational and problem resolution skills
- Team player and strong interpersonal skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Interest in Project Management
- Ability to function well in a competitive, challenging environment, and the ability to deal with changing priorities
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Knowledge of RDMBS, Jira, Jira Align, MS Visio, Word, Excel, Photoshop/Ulead Photo Impact (or equivalent graphics package for screenshots), and basic SQL queries would be great
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
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What We Do
MarketAxess is 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.
Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency and competition in the marketplace.
Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 companies around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead.
We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.
Why Work With Us
When we say we have an environment without endless layers, we really mean it. You’ll work alongside talented colleagues of all backgrounds and experience in an environment where your voice is valued. You’ll be in the middle of the action, where your contributions will be seen and recognized.
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