Senior Application Developer

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Developer to be member of the Agile Team responsible for implementing software development strategy for Capital Markets Shared Technology Products; they apply business requirements and knowledge of software development lifecycles to guide the development of complex software products or customer solutions. They work as a part of a Scrum team using Continuous Integration and Behavior Driven Development, and adopting DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Architects in designing technical solutions
• Take a role in design and implementation of products and platforms
• Hands on with deep technical expertise with knowledge that can be shared with the wider team
• Advocate and evangelize best practice engineering
• Have familiarity with security and operational standard methodologies
• Working in a modern, agile environment (e.g. Scrum / Kanban)
• Promoting and driving innovation by actively advocating new tools, processes and technical developments to drive continuous development
• Providing technical leadership across technology choices and leading and mentoring best practices
• Producing clean efficient code based on specifications and developing components from UI to back end using modern languages and techniques
• Creating and maintaining deployment tooling and automation to support the CI/ CD pipelines
• Collaborating with team members on best practices, promoting effective cloud-based approaches and embracing agile methodologies to rapidly iterate solutions
• Driving innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development
• Have expertise in a set of the team's domains, including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems
• Guides teams in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes
• Actively contributes to security designs based on the organization's security strategy. Fosters a security first approach across teams and leads by example. Has advanced knowledge of key security technologies, protocols & techniques (e.g. TLS, OAuth, Encryption, Networks)
• Have the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence.

Key Behavior:

• Be comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where needs evolve rapidly and priorities change
• A passion for learning and innovation is critical
• Employ their multi-faceted skills to create imaginative solutions as well as coaching and nurturing excellence in others.
• Be on the lookout for chances to call your team on to greater things, both individually and as a unit.
• Interested in the evolution of the Equities, FX and Derivatives trading landscape.

Required Skills:

• Experience with cross-platform and willingness to work on backend software and aspiring to Clean Coding
• Experience with development of RESTful Web Services, in-depth knowledge of Java, event driven development, Microservice design patterns, Cloud configurations and deployments
• Knowledge of Enterprise Container Platforms, experience with modern database technologies, and SCM, packaging and build tools - GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus
• Experience of developing testing frameworks e.g. JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, of Test/ Behaviour Driven development and test automation
• Proficient in using Jira/Confluence
• Good knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, Microservice architecture
• Excellent knowledge of Object-oriented programming
• Knowledge of different databases (Relational and NoSQL)
• Practices Agile principles
• Able to do code reviews/ mentor and train junior developers
• Write highly available, maintainable and secure code
• Good understanding of Web and Architectural design patterns
• Great understanding of the Solid Principles, OWASP, CAP Theorem and Distributed Systems Design
• Experience with container technologies including Docker / Kubernetes
• Wider Engineering technical expertise (in automation testing)

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

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. 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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