Java Development Lead

Join our new development team!

The project:

Refinitiv FX Aggregator enables seamless access to liquidity. It allows a flexible choice of venue and execution management options to trade forex straight from the Refinitiv desktop.

Clients can connect LSEG regulated markets, as well as third-party venues and exchanges (such as CBOE FX, EuronextFX, B3 and others on demand), offering the widest choice of access to liquidity on the market.

Find out more: FX Aggregator | Refinitiv

Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities

• Working as a technical lead in the Global Development team to implement new functionality in FX trading platform.

• Participating in project/work planning sessions with team members and product managers to analyze requirements, estimate effort, and break down tasks.

• Designing, developing, and documenting applications solutions.

• Modifying existing applications, components, libraries, and modules.

• Taking part in code reviews and reviewing the work of colleagues.

• Support dev/ops teams with system maintenance tasks and tools that facilitate unattended upgrading, fall back, patching, etc.

• Support QA team in design and implementation for automated testing.

• 3rd level support, including troubleshooting on production systems, occasionally requiring the candidate to be "on-call" outside of normal business hours.

• Builds and defines learning and development plans for teams and individuals

• Demonstrates depth of knowledge and expertise in software development and is regarded as the subject matter expert in their domain. Develops knowledge of other domains to understand linkages and dependencies.

• Understands the tech strategy and culture, and how they impact own work as well as adjacent teams.

• Develops an understanding of the market and LSEG's commercial position in it.

• Leads the delivery of important projects, supporting team members to be productive with little direction; delegating and reviewing work when required.

• Works with architects to decompose a solution into Epics

• Leads design work and planning for Epics breaking them down to stories with product owners and quality leads.

• Adapts existing patterns to develop robust solutions.

Required Skills

• Minimum 8 years experience as Java Developer

• Expert design and programming experience with recent Java versions, including development of multi-tier and event driven microservice based systems

• Deep knowledge of high-performance programming in Java and performance optimization techniques (i.e., GC tuning) (required)

• Experience of message-driven architectures such as Kafka, Tibco, Solace

• Knowledge of approaches to ensure resilient operation of distributed systems, including recovery, failover, redundancy, and related principles

• Experienced developing software for real time, low latency distribution systems

• Experience with middleware, preferred Kafka, Tibco, RabbitMQ

• Experienced with cloud infrastructure, Containerization & Kubernetes. (Azure preferred)

• Experienced with Agile methodologies and leading Agile teams

• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong OOAD skills

• Self-motivated, co-operative team player, ability to work with global teams

• Good communication skills, including written and spoken English

Additional Desirable Skills

• Experience developing Trading Platforms.

• Experience with NOSQL, preferred Redis, MongoDB.

• Experience implementing automated testing solutions.

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines.

• Significant knowledge of at least one programming language

• Some experience of Business and Technical Analysis, Quality Assurance, delivery management, and / or Emerging Technology and Governance

• People management experience.

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 maximize each employee's potential through personal development and through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe that 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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