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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 commitment 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, handle 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.

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. LSEG's ticker symbol is LSEG.

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

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder - which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise.

As a global organization spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Java Engineer with AI proficiency to help build the next generation FTSE Russell Index Platform. This platform underpins the calculation and distribution of FTSE Russell's global family of indexes and requires advanced engineering, high precision data processing, and deep collaboration across global teams.

This is a deeply technical role focused on designing, building, integrating, and operationalizing modern software and AI driven capabilities across internal platforms and client facing products. You will work with innovative technologies, contribute to complex algorithmic design, and drive engineering excellence in a high performance, data intensive environment.

What We're Looking For

A proactive, creative engineering leader who enjoys solving complex problems, working hands-on with modern technologies, and driving AI enabled innovation. If you're passionate about building resilient, intelligent, data intensive systems that power global financial markets, we'd love to hear from you.

• Design, develop, and maintain complex Java and Python applications using modern engineering practices. Build / embed AI powered features into critical systems.

• Architect and enhance services that support large-scale, performance critical index computations.

• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX, and engineering teams globally to deliver high quality products.

• Lead projects end-to-end through requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.

• Build and maintain automated test suites to ensure performance, scalability, and security.

• Diagnose production issues, identify root causes, and deliver Level 3 support and fixes.

• Conduct peer reviews, provide technical leadership, and mentor junior engineers.
  

• 10+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience.

• Support the organisation's AI adoption journey.

• Develop and enhance intelligent solutions using LLMs, LangChain/LangGraph, and agent AI frameworks.

• Establish engineering guidelines for safe, scalable, traceable and production ready AI deployments across internal platforms and external product suites.

• Strong algorithms, data structures, problem solving skills, and ability to translate business problems into scalable solutions.

• Good command of coding standards and Strong understanding of both high level and low level software design

• Expertise in:

• Core Java, Python.

• Building highly distributed, data intensive systems.

• Microservices, REST APIs.

• RDBMS (Oracle/SQL Server/Postgres).

• CI/CD tools (Jenkins/GitLab), DevOps automation.

• Docker, Kubernetes.

• JVM profiling & performance optimisation.

• Prior exposure to Level 3 production support.

• Excellent Algorithm and Problem-Solving skills.

• Ability to convert business use cases and problems into technical solutions.

• Ability to learn quickly, creative, results driven, self-motivated, and solutions oriented.

• Ability to work against tight objectives.

• Demonstrates a can-do demeanour, leads change, thinks strategically.

• Experience in CI/CD tools & automation e.g., Jenkins/GitLab/similar DevOps tooling.

• Experience working on Performance Optimizations, JVM Profiling.

• Mentor team of junior developers

• Extensive hands-on experience in:

• Core Java, good understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms

• Python core concepts and proficiency with its libraries and framework

• Relational DB for e.g. (Oracle /SQL server /Postgres SQL)

• DevOps (CI/CD)

• Docker, Kubernetes

• Microservices and REST APIs.

• Good Understanding of Multi-threading & Concurrency.
  

• Experience leading or mentoring a team of engineers.

• Experience within financial services or with financial market data.

• Familiarity with in-memory caching, Spring Boot, Redis, Kafka.

• Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber, JBehave, or Karate.

• Background as a Scrum Master or experience running Agile teams.

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 organization 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.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, color, 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. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

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

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