Senior Software Engineer - Java

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. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike.

The role focuses on developing and maintaining our Risk Intelligence products in the KYC space, like World-Check One and World-Check Verify, within an agile environment. It requires strong Java and cloud technology skills, especially AWS, and involves collaboration across teams to enhance platform capabilities.

As a member of the API Gateway development team, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Effectively use modern development methods, including build and test tools, and agile processes to deliver high-quality services.
• Build security and availability into designs from the beginning, including monitoring and data collection for ongoing support and service improvement.
• Collaborate closely with other groups within the organisation to understand their requirements of the platform and to support their use of it.
• Maintain an understanding of industry trends and use this knowledge to bring new ideas to the platform.
• Work closely with BA and PO to write and break down work items and communicate requirements.
• Build a global, highly resilient, high scalable and highly performant system.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Proven experience in software development (Java, Java Springboot).
• Proven experience in Cloud Technologies (AWS preferred).
• Experience with designing, developing, debugging, optimising and supporting sophisticated production systems.
• Working in a cross-functional multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience with modern development methods, including agile, continuous build and unit testing processes.
• Strong social and collaboration skills.
• Self-motivated and self-directed with an ability to translate high-level direction into solutions and development projects.
• Excellent process analysis skills with an eye for optimisation and automation.
• Thorough knowledge of basic security concepts.
• Willingness to learn and apply new skills.
• Ability to manage own time effectively and to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to work effectively in a diverse, globally distributed team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with deployment approaches and technologies such as microservice architectures, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience of developing REST endpoints and working with Netty client-server framework.
• Experience with AWS EKS services.
• Good understanding of auto-scaling systems and design.

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.

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.

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.