Senior Software Engineer

About Us:
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Summary:
The Workflows Engineering team are recruiting Java Engineers to play a crucial role in our organization. The successful candidates will become part of an engineering team addressing complex challenges and taking these to resolution. This provides a phenomenal opportunity for individuals who enjoy solving a variety of problems and who relish the chance to lead the resolution of exciting and new challenges on a regular basis.

The successful candidate will collaborate with colleagues across the organization to build and implement the technical strategy for a set of Engineering Products within our FX group. They will ensure business requirements are applied and lean on their experience of software engineering and development lifecycles to lead change in exciting software challenges and customer solutions.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Demonstrates extensive knowledge of Java technologies, design, development and implementation
• Advances tools and applications by producing expert code and producing the right solutions needed
• Manages own workload and promotes an inclusive and open culture, working autonomously
• Is regarded as the point of contact in their domain by showing significant depth of knowledge and expertise in engineering and DevOps
• Understands how the technology / domain strategy relates to and impacts own work, supporting the implementation of strategy within all work.
• Develops an understanding of the market and LSEG's commercial position in it
• Supports design work and planning for Epics breaking them down to stories with product owners and quality leads
• Adapts existing patterns to develop robust solutions
• Builds positive relationships with internal and external partners, growing own network and collaborating with other teams. Communicates challenging technical information clearly and concisely in an audience appropriate format
• Continues to develop technology and industry expertise through certifications, professional qualifications

What You'll Bring:
Nice to have:

• Professional qualification or equivalent
• Basic financial understanding of trading systems and financial markets.
• Experience or familiarity with financial messaging protocols - particularly FIX is desirable

Must Have:

• Significant knowledge of at least one programming language (Java is the main requirement but others will be a bonus too)
• Ideally Experience in a minimum of 3 from - SpringBoot REST and Websocket services, Event-driven messaging (Kafka), SQL (Postgressql), Redis, Azure - PaaS (EventHub, AzureSQL, Kubernetes, AzureCache, etc), terraform, helm, GitLab CI - or AWS equivalents.
• Significant experience in a Software development and delivery role

Benefits
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We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and take care of complicated scenarios If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

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Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

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