Technical Lead - Backend

Overview

An opportunity exists within a large financial services organisation for a Technical Lead as part of a new capability within RDP Content Platform Technology. This role will form part of a new team to be based in Bucharest which will have support both locally and from the wider team. This is a newly formed organisation of circa 450 team members that sits as part of the larger Content Transformation Team of circa 1000 people.

Our goal is to build out the Technology team operating from our strategic site in Bucharest providing experienced and dynamic team members to support multiple roles across our portfolio of global projects. This is a very exciting time to get involved, to help develop and shape new technology and drive change throughout the organisation.

This role will work as part of a scrum team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the architecture and design solutions considering various aspects like extensibility, scalability, performance, security, design patterns, user experience, NFRs, etc., and ensure that all relevant best practices are followed
• Develop a deep understanding of our users, their needs, behaviours, desires, and bring that insight into the heart of all aspects of project work
• Define guidelines and benchmarks for NFR considerations during project implementation.
• Understand and analyse business use cases and technical requirements and be able to design, build and integrate a varying suite of internal and external services
• Provide effort estimates for the requested functionalities
• Lead and mentor the team to ensure best practices are observed
• Contribute to the development effort of the team (We believe that the best way to know your system is to step in and help building it)
• Perform code-reviews where needed
• Delivery on time and commitments by the team

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years in development role
• Previous experience in Java/Kotlin, Microservices - Spring Boot, RESTful API, SQL, Unix, DB programming, JIRA, Confluence, GIT
• Solid understanding of automated software application builds and deployments
• Capable of building scalable and robust infrastructure
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with Python
• Excellent knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS is a plus)
• Good understanding of SDLC, CICD and Git (source code repository)
• CI/CD tools integration and implementation
• Rest API scripting
• AWS

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 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)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events Team Buildings

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose - driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth - in everything we do.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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

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