Senior Java 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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LSEG TORA is the leading provider of advanced investment management technologies for asset managers, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and sell-side trading desks globally. We are a cloud-based front-to-back office technology provider delivering everything you need to run a trading and portfolio management desk.

Our award-winning suite of sophisticated trading products offers the industry’s most comprehensive institutional trading software including execution management, order management, risk control tools, pre-trade and post-trade TCA and portfolio management solutions.

Our team of software development experts build innovative technology that fits our clients’ workflow requirements through a feature-rich, intuitive user interface. We pride ourselves on having a strong focus on client support, rapid implementation and industry-leading innovation.

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Role Description

We are looking to hire a Java Software Engineer who has a solid software engineering background with excellent object-oriented analysis, design, programming skills, a high appetite for clean code and looking forward to showcasing them in a highly professional environment, and will be responsible for designing and developing a Java-based distributed system. The system is designed for post-trading specific operations (e.g. cash settlement, reconciliation with 3rd parties, reporting).

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to all phases of the software development process, from design to deployment and maintenance
• Write well designed, testable and efficient code
• Create and maintain documentation to describe the system and its parts, including requirements documents, design decisions, architecture descriptions, program source code and support documentation
• Measure and track performance, latency, scalability and develop solutions to improve overall system health
• Develop monitoring tools and perform root cause analysis for production issues raised to the engineering team
• Participate in code reviews
• Gain a deep understanding of our products, from a technical but also from a business perspective
• Use open-source and other technologies outside of the JDK
• Participate proactively in team meetings to maintain or improve team standards
• Help growing the current and next generation of developers in writing clean code, by sharing standard methodologies in software development

Candidate Profile

Skills:

• At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Proven experience with Java Core (collections, multithreading, I/O, etc.)
• Good knowledge of the following principles: SOLID, DRY, Law of Demeter, etc.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented concepts
• Good design capabilities, understanding of most common design patterns
• Experience with unit testing frameworks & libraries (JUnit, TestNG, Mockito)
• Experience with version control systems (Git)
• Experience with build automation tools (Gradle, Maven)
• Linux / Unix OS knowledge
• Scripting skills (e.g. JavaScript, Python, Shell, Ruby, Bash, etc.)
• Working experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum
• Experience with RDBMSs (e.g. MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, etc.)
• Ability to communicate with clarity and precision, presenting complex / technical information in a concise format that is audience appropriate
• Strong interpersonal skills, for quickly establishing rapport, building positive relationships and networks
• Advanced level in written and spoken English

Educational background:

• Academic degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related disciplines

Engineer’s mindset:

• A high degree of organizational skills – ability to gain the autonomy that you need to perform your daily tasks
• Self-motivated, self-driven – you must be able to deal with setbacks and continue to pursue goals despite obstacles
• You take initiative to develop knowledge in technology products and tools through on the job learning, certifications and projects
• Positive team player attitude – we truly believe that software development is a team sport

Advantage – would be a plus:

• Experience with software practices like test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Knowledge / experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud computing platform
• Experience with DevOps tools (GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible)
• A good understanding of financial and trading concepts

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 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

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.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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