Senior Java 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:

Join our team and help us build the future of financial services on blockchain technology. This is a unique opportunity to work on innovative products and services that will transform the way we interact with financial markets.

DMI (Digital Markets Infrastructure) is an ambitious project: large-scale, complex and uses a range of blockchain architecture patterns, with numerous partners (internal and external) and use cases. The work is focused on the toketokenizationfinancial instruments, i.e. as digital assets. We seek candidates with an interest in the financial markets with experience of working on large projects. This is a chance to work on an innovative, intellectually challenging project backed by the influential reach of London Stock Exchange Group.

The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in developing, enhancing, and ensuring the robustness of our software solutions, especially those that are critical for LSEG Capital Markets’ strategic goals.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Design, develop, and optimize software solutions using modern technologies.
• Collaborate with product teams and architects to deliver scalable and reliable software.
• Play a pivotal role in the product development life cycle, ensuring that software solutions are robust and scalable.
• Engage with cross-functional teams, central technology functions, and wider stakeholders to ensure software design goals are met.
• Ensure alignment of software solutions with LSEG’s technology and business goals.
• Maintain up-to-date expert knowledge of relevant technologies and trends.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Proven experience in software development as a senior engineer.
• 5 or more years programming in Java, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Data, Hibernate/JPA and building REST services.
• Experience with microservices and event-based architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud (Azure, AWS or similar), particularly with deploying, managing, and scaling back-end application.
• Experience pairing with QA Automation (SDET) engineers to help reduce technical debt and contribute to building a maintainable E2E automation suite.
• Commercial awareness and knowledge of financial services (desirable).
• Excellent communicator, able to interact with stakeholders at all levels.
• Vision and creativity to foresee challenges and provide innovative solutions.
• Interest in new technology and ability to work with early-stage ideas.

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be suppor