Senior Software Engineer - Java in Nottingham

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.

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 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. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

Role Summary: Do you have a passion for technology? Do you want to make a difference, delivering software used by some of the biggest companies in the world? Do you love working with others in a dynamic agile environment? 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 will develop enterprise software, adhering to company standards and established software methodology.
• Demonstrating a consistent focus on quality, you will 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 oriented architectures.

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you are ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we would 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.

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.