Senior Software Engineer - Java in Nottingham

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.

Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference.

Companies throughout the world are exposed to risk; understanding and managing that risk is key to their continued success. As part of the Nottingham Risk Technology Hub you will be delivering solutions that help our customers protect their brand and make smarter decisions. We are looking for enthusiastic, passionate software engineers to join our team as we strive to deliver excellence to our customers.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• You will build and maintain efficient, reusable, reliable and secure code based on User Stories and software designs.
• Working within a multi-functional agile team, you'll develop enterprise software, adhering to company standards and established software methodology.
• Demonstrating a consistent focus on quality, you'll ensure that your team delivers reliable, robust software through the creation and execution of automated tests.
• To help the teams develop and learn, you will review work of peers and more junior developers, providing advice and guidance to benefit the team.
• Through agile retrospectives and reviews, you will inspect and adapt, finding innovative ways to make your team work more effectively.
• Through participation in refinement and planning sessions, you will work with other team members to analyse development requirements, provide design options and complexity estimates, and agree how to deliver the requirements.
• Actively participating in Scrum meetings, you will give timely status updates on areas for which you are responsible.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Experienced software engineer with excellent knowledge of the Java language and underlying JVM.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Familiar with various design patterns.
• Experience of unit testing.
• Knowledge of databases and SQL.
• Understanding of security implications and secure coding.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Skill for writing clean, readable code and reusable components.
• Experienced in or a strong desire to work in a formal agile software development lifecycle.
• Understanding of HTML and XML.
• Proficient using source code management tools such as Git or SVN.
• Familiar with continuous build and integration.

Desired Skills/Experience Required:

• Experience with AWS and Elasticsearch.
• Experience with CI CD tooling, such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab and understanding of DevOps culture.
• Experience with RESTful interfaces.
• Knowledge of/Experience with service orientated architectures.

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 values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. 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.