Senior Software Engineer (C/C++)

About us: LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) 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 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 people: People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. 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 adopt diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives.

Job Summary: We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for LSEG’s Elektron Real Time Data Distribution System in the Real Time Core team. The successful candidate will combine strong technical and collaboration skills in a demanding and dynamic environment. You will work directly with your team and with groups across the organisation to ensure the best service for our client base.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engaging with the product owner, team lead, architects and other members of the global team to help build world-class solutions to address our customer needs.
• Demonstrating a consistent focus on quality and security, delivering reliable and robust solutions.
• Managing own workload and promoting an inclusive and open culture.
• Taking initiative to develop knowledge in technology products and tools through on the job learning, certifications and projects.
• Actively participating in Scrum meetings, giving timely status updates to the Team Lead and/or Scrum Master on areas for which you are responsible.
• Through agile retrospectives and reviews, analysing and adapting, finding innovative ways to enable your team to work more effectively delivering on time to defined standards of quality.
• Working well under pressure and adept at taking problems and seeing them through to resolution with minimal supervision.
• Ensuring that the Knowledge Base is kept up to date with the team's knowledge and technical issues resolution.

Key Relationships:

• Primary - Development Manager, Development team, Operations Support team, Quality Engineering Teams, Architecture, SCRUM Master, Product Owner, and Business Experts assigned to projects.
• Secondary - other LSEG staff.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Must have: Strong C/C++ experience (minimum 5 years) for cross-platform development, particularly RedHat Linux.
• Experience in using repositories for multi-person, multi-software versions pipelines of delivery.
• Use of AGILE Software Development techniques including TDD and/or BDD, and Atlassian toolsets.
• Knowledge of building and using automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent verbal communication and written documentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Degree level qualification (Computing / Computer Science or related discipline).

Nice to have:

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• High Transactional, Low Latency development experience.
• Development of Scripting Languages including Python, JS and Node.
• Cloud technologies, AWS/Azure Cloud Formation.

What’s in it for you? We offer a professional, fun and creative work environment with opportunities to progress your career. LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.