At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of innovative market-infrastructure services using Scala and AWS.
- Company: Join LSEG, a global leader in financial markets and data solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive culture that values your individuality and encourages new ideas.
- Why this job: Shape the future of finance while working in a collaborative and creative environment.
- Qualifications: Expertise in Scala, AWS, and agile methodologies; experience with Java and ReactJS is a plus.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
The Senior lead Scala Engineer will play a key role in the engineering and delivery of a critical market‐infrastructure service within the Equities platform, with a strong focus on AWS cloud‐native development. As a senior member of the engineering team, this individual will help shape technical direction, contribute to best-in-class engineering standards, and actively support the continued growth and evolution of the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- A strong focus on engineering excellence and coding, adopting an open and hands-on approach to problem-solving and delivery.
- Engage deeply in technical design and implementation to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices.
- Actively contribute to all stages of the product engineering life cycle—solutioning, design, coding, and testing—while promoting collaboration and transparency within the team to drive high-quality outcomes.
- Expertise in building and maintaining DevOps pipelines, ideally with GitLab.
- Proficient in shift-left testing using tools like JUnit, Cucumber, Gherkin, PACT, and Test Containers.
- Advanced Scala programming with strong proficiency in both functional and object‐oriented programming paradigms.
- Deep practical expertise with Scala, including key frameworks and libraries such as Akka, Play Framework, and Cats/Scalaz.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise‐grade Scala applications in production environments, focusing on quality, resilience, performance, and observability.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and multi‐threading.
- Strong SQL knowledge with experience in relational databases such as Postgres.
- Familiarity with database version control tools like Flyway and Liquibase.
- Experience working with major public cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and hands-on use of cloud-based services such as AWS Aurora, MSK, S3, and IAM.
- Basic understanding of cloud networking concepts.
- Strong understanding and commitment to the ethos of agile working, with experience working within Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
- Proven collaboration with cross-functional teams in scaled agile environments.
- Some experience of writing applications using Java and developing web applications using ReactJS.
Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. 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.
We value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.
You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Type: Full time
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