Senior Java Engineering Lead, London Stock Exchange

• We seek candidates with an interest in the financial markets with experience of working on large projects
• The ideal candidate will leverage their deep expertise in various back-end technologies to drive innovation
• Computer science, software engineering or relevant technical background required
• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in backend development with a track record if producing and maintaining efficient and maintainable code
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to interact with stakeholders across business & technology at all levels, both internally and externally
• Experience in coaching other developers; reviewing developers’ work and providing feedback
• Vision and creativity: Ability to foresee roadblocks, conceive intelligent solutions and contribute innovative ideas, as well as manage change and ambiguity effectively and confidently
• Leadership: Ability to lead ownership of deliverables and work with stakeholders across the business to progress and achieve the relevant goals to ensure development, deployment & delivery is successful
• 5 or more years programming in Java
• Spring inc. Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Data, Hibernate/JPA, building REST services
• Understanding of REST API design
• Experience of deploying and maintaining applications in the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP or similar)

Desirable

• 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
• This is a chance to work on an innovative, intellectually challenging project backed by the influential reach of London Stock Exchange Group
• They will play an essential role in ensuring the robustness and efficiency of back-end systems across Digital Market Infrastructure
• Demonstrates significant working knowledge of Java and related technologies and advises on design, development and implementation
• Leads by example, promoting an open and inclusive culture, holding responsibility for motivation, retention and performance management
• Leads the delivery of critical projects, coaching team members to be productive with little direction; delegating and reviewing work when required
• Leads timely design work and planning for epics breaking them down to stories with product owners and other leads. Build and maintain microservices that are scalable and reliable
• Collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders to establish and achieve set out objectives
• Coach and guide the team’s developers on best practices for maintainable code with sufficient coverage of automated testing
• Design and implement database solutions in SQL & NoSQL ensuring optimal performance, resilience, and scalability
• Collaborate with broad range of stakeholders to establish and achieve set out objectives
• Own solution documentation and alignment to standards, policies & strategy across emerging technology, capital markets technology, as well as wider Group technology