Principal Engineer, London Stock Exchange
Cloud Scaling
Stock exchange in the City of London
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Stock exchange in the City of London
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make things happen, out there in the real world, where it matters.
Role
Who you are
- A highly innovative and hands-on technical leader with a passion for engineering excellence
- An energetic team player who can influence and drive outcomes across a matrixed organisation
- A role model who demonstrates and enforces the highest engineering standards, empowering teams to excel through technical guidance and mentorship
- Tenacious in your own development and committed to continuous improvement
- Skilled at creating and delivering technical solutions that meet customer needs, and comfortable leading their implementation in collaboration with business and engineering teams
- Proud of delivering scalable, reliable solutions and always seeking opportunities to innovate and improve
- Committed to building strong partnerships internally and externally, acting with integrity and upholding our cultural values
- Degree level qualification, preferably in Computer Science or related field or equivalent
- Proven experience as a principal or lead engineer driving large scale global systems and teams
- Deep expertise with cloud technologies (predominantly AWS; Azure and GCP experience beneficial)
- Strong background in the Java development stack
- Demonstrated success building high performance, scalable, and reliable solutions
- Experience working with and coaching geographically dispersed teams and working in multi-location, multi-time zone environments
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence at all organisational levels
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment managing multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Experience with ML/AI technologies is a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Principal Engineer - Cloud Scaling to drive the highest level of engineering excellence and lead our cloud scaling initiatives within our flagship product, World-Check One
- This is a unique opportunity to remain hands-on while shaping the technical direction of a platform that must scale to meet aggressive business growth, support the rapid delivery of new product features, and address the high demands of our customers
- This is an individual contributor role, reporting directly to the Engineering Director
- You will not have direct people management responsibilities, but will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and influence across teams
- You will be responsible for setting and upholding the highest standards of engineering, ensuring our systems are designed for performance, availability, and scalability
- You will diagnose and resolve complex architectural and code-level performance issues, and work closely with Directors, Architects, Developers, and Product Managers to deliver robust, high-quality solutions
- Our primary goal in World-Check One over the next two years is to transform our architecture into a truly Cloud-Native platform, while maintaining aggressive growth and enabling the delivery of new product features that are critical to the future success of the platform
- As Principal Engineer, you will balance staying at the forefront of new technologies with a pragmatic approach to solving real-world problems, ensuring our platform can scale efficiently and reliably
- Drive the technical vision and hands-on leadership for World-Check One cloud-scaling initiatives, ensuring the platform can transform and scale to support aggressive growth and new product features
- Set and uphold the highest standards for service, quality, security, and performance, proactively addressing technical debt and prioritising improvements alongside feature delivery
- Lead innovations to handle rapidly growing volumes, reducing cost and time to market, while enabling the introduction of new capabilities
- Champion engineering excellence and differentiation to address current and future business needs
- Lead service improvements for performance, availability, security, privacy, and data residency
- Guide teams to deliver quality products on time, following Agile software development practices, through technical influence rather than direct management
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, teamwork, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making
- Collaborate across business areas to solve shared challenges and maximise the impact of engineering efforts
- Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you
Our take
The London Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges, with a history dating back over 300 years. It operates as a part of LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), one of the world’s leading providers of financial markets infrastructure, as a marketplace to enable stock brokers and traders to buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other securities.
The London Stock Exchange has lived through a stream of innovations; from telegraph and telephone, to the Market Price Display System, automatic trade matching, and the digitisation of issuer services. In 2019 it acquired Refinitiv, a financial information company, and in doing so became a global financial news and data business.
Most recently, the London Stock Exchange has made moves to support the evolution of private markets, and further build its presence in this space. It partnered with Floww, a platform that connects investors with private companies, with aims to launch a private primary capital raising facility, as well as explore new technologies and secondary market options for the platform.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Hybrid working options
- Healthcare
- Retirement planning
- Paid volunteering days
- Wellbeing initiatives
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
David Schwimmer
(CEO, not founder)Was Managing Director at Goldman Sachs for 20 years.
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