Java Engineer

Join our team and help us build the future of financial services on blockchain technology. This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge products and services that will transform the way we interact with financial markets.

DMI (Digital Markets Infrastructure) is an ambitious project: large-scale, complex and uses a range of blockchain architecture patterns, with numerous stakeholders (internal and external) and use cases. The work is focused on the tokenisation of financial instruments, i.e. as digital assets. We seek candidates with an interest in the financial markets with experience of working on large projects. This is a chance to work on an innovative, intellectually challenging project backed by the influential reach of London Stock Exchange Group.

The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in developing, enhancing, and ensuring the robustness of our software solutions, especially those that are critical for LSEG Capital Markets’ strategic goals.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, develop, and optimize software solutions using modern technologies.
• Collaborate with product teams and architects to deliver scalable and reliable software.
• Play a pivotal role in the product development life cycle, ensuring that software solutions are robust and scalable.
• Engage with multi-functional teams, central technology functions, and wider collaborators to ensure software design goals are met.
• Ensure alignment of software solutions with LSEG’s technology and business goals.
• Maintain up-to-date expert knowledge of relevant technologies and trends.

• Computer science, software engineering or relevant technical background required.
• Proven experience in software development as a senior engineer.
• Professional experience programming in Java, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Data, Hibernate/JPA and building REST services.
• Experience with microservices and event-based architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud (Azure, AWS or similar), particularly with deploying, managing, and scaling back-end application.
• Experience pairing with QA Automation (SDET) engineers to help reduce technical debt and contribute to building a maintainable E2E automation suite.
• Commercial awareness and knowledge of financial services (desirable).
• Excellent communicator, able to interact with partners at all levels.
• Vision and creativity to foresee challenges and provide innovative solutions.
• Interest in new technology and ability to work with early-stage ideas.