TradeAgent Java Engineer

Job Description
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.
Proud to share LSEG in Romania is Great Place to Work certified (Sept ’24 – Sept ’25). Learn more about life and purpose of our company directly from the Romanian colleagues’ video:
Bucharest, Romania | Where We Work | LSEG

Role Description:
The successful candidate for the Trade Agent Senior Developer role, reporting to the Trade Agent Director of Technical Solutions & Delivery, will form part of a team building a complex, ground-up cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture for LSEG. This opening requires a candidate who takes great pride in delivering excellence with excellent logical and technical skills and a can-do attitude combined with a helpful mentality, and a wish to play a critical role in forming and growing a new business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, deliver and maintain the multiple components of the Trade Agent platform ensuring timely delivery of work items.
• Resolve a high impact problem through in-depth evaluation of sophisticated architectures, business processes and industry standards.
• Serve as advisor to develop highly resilient and future proof solutions.
• Contribute to research and suggest for new projects for the Trade Agent platform.
• Willing to take new responsibilities based on projects need and circumstances.
• Contribute and guide the program initiatives in engineering excellence and learning and development.
• Ensure work is well documented and communicated with various collaborators.
• Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

1. Event driven microservices architecture

• You have excellent understanding of microservices designs, its pitfalls, and standard methodologies.
• You have knowledge of Domain Driven Design and event driven architecture.
• You have experience of working with containerised and orchestrated services using Docker and Kubernetes.
• You have experience of event-driven patterns that allow for an efficient and robust communication architecture.
• You have experience of building and maintain dev-ops pipelines for delivering applications ideally using GitLab.
• You have experience of using shift left testing principles and frameworks using technology such as Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Contract Test(PACT), TestContainers or other similar technology.
• You have solid understanding of using event and message brokers, such as Kafka and MQ.

2. Advanced Java programming

• You have strong experience in Object Oriented Programming.
• You have a strong grasp of Java 17 and higher including the latest features and have used Spring Boot
• You are proficiency in developing and delivering enterprise grade Java applications.
• You have experience of working with data structures, algorithms, concurrency & multi-threading.

3. Database Management

• You have strong SQL knowledge and experience working with relational DBs, such as Postgres.
• You have a solid understanding and hands-on with object storages such as AWS S3.
• You have knowledge of Database version control tools such as Flyway and Liquibase.

4. Cloud Architecture

• You have worked on major public cloud preferably AWS.
• You have used cloud-based technology like AWS Aurora, MSK, S3, IAM
• You have a basic understanding of cloud networking.

5. Agile ways of working

• You understand and believe in the ethos of agile working.