TradeAgent Senior Java 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. Proud to share LSEG in Romania is Great Place to Work certified (Sept ’24 – Sept ’25).

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:

• Event driven microservices architecture: Excellent understanding of microservices designs, its pitfalls, and best practices. Knowledge of Domain Driven Design and event driven architecture. Experience of working with containerised and orchestrated services using Docker and Kubernetes. Experience of event-driven patterns that allow for an efficient and robust communication architecture. Experience of building and maintaining dev-ops pipelines for delivering applications ideally using GitLab. Experience of using shift left testing principles and frameworks using technology such as Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Contract Test (PACT), TestContainers or other similar technology. Solid understanding of using event and message brokers, such as Kafka and MQ.
• Advanced Java programming: Strong experience in Object Oriented Programming. Strong grasp of Java 17 and higher including the latest features and have used Spring Boot. Proficiency in developing and delivering enterprise grade Java applications. Experience of working with data structures, algorithms, concurrency & multi-threading.
• Database Management: Strong SQL knowledge and experience working with relational DBs, such as Postgres. Solid understanding and hands-on with object storages such as AWS S3. Knowledge of Database version control tools such as Flyway and Liquibase.
• Cloud Architecture: Worked on major public cloud preferably AWS. Used cloud-based technology like AWS Aurora, MSK, S3, IAM. Basic understanding of cloud networking.
• Agile ways of working: Understand and believe in the ethos of agile working. Experience of working in Scrum/Kanban model. Can participate and actively collaborate and contribute to sprint ceremonies including Product Backlog Refinement. Experience of collaborating with multi-functional teams in scaled agile setups.

The following skills are a nice to have but not essential:

• Experience of writing applications using Scala.
• Developed Web applications using ReactJS.

Key Behaviours:

• Keen focus on delivery excellence, meeting commitments and handling your customers’ expectations.
• Ability to take on responsibility and be accountable for it.
• Work well within a team, are helpful and highly collaborative.
• Work with the business, architecture, and delivery staff to understand their requirements in depth and translate that into robust timely delivered applications.
• Be critical and ambitious while maintaining respect.
• Understand the importance of communication within a team and have championed it in the past.
• Desire to learn, improve and innovate.
• Very high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• Engineer at heart that enjoys working with various technologies and has an appetite for tackling challenges and maximising new technologies while minimising complexity.

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 we 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.

Career Stage: Senior Associate

LSEG Information: Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. 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. 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. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

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