Trading Engineering Intern 2025

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 be part of a 9- week Global Intern program, where you will work with other developers, architects, test engineers and product management in the development of real-time fixed income trading systems.

You will join an Agile Scrum team whose goal is to build new products and enhance existing ones.

How You'll Help Take Us There

• Understand business requirements
• Participate in software design
• Provide time estimates
• Write code and unit tests
• Participate in code reviews
• Fix bugs

What We're Looking for

Currently enrolled in a full-time bachelor’s or master’s degree program in mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar from an accredited college or university.

This internship is intended for students with 1-2 semesters to complete until their degree is conferred.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States permanently without employment visa sponsorship required now or in the future
• Good understanding of various data structures and algorithms
• Well-versed in modern application design paradigms and patterns
• Exposure to JAVA programming language
• Basic knowledge of enterprise RDBMS (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server)
• Experience with one of the following Enterprise Operating Systems : Linux, Windows
• Experience in development / willingness to learn Java based server-side framework (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)
• 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

For job positions in NYC, NY, and other locations where required, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $35.

00 USD to $45.00 USD per hour. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

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