Lead Software & Platform Engineer
London Stock Exchange Group4 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, delivery, and operation of large-scale, low-latency FX trading platform services.
- Build and maintain production-grade Java, Spring Boot, and microservices-based applications.
- Deploy and operate Java services on Kubernetes across public cloud environments.
- Analyze and resolve complex production issues across application, platform, infrastructure, networking, and deployment layers.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while guiding architecture, engineering standards, and system design.
- Improve platform observability, reliability, alerting, troubleshooting, operational readiness, performance, security, and developer experience.
- Develop automation for detecting, preventing, and resolving production issues and reducing downtime and latency impact.
- Support high-performance trading venues, platform services, and real-time data processing components.
- Collaborate with global engineering, architecture, infrastructure, operations, and product teams on cross-system issues and corrective actions.
- Produce technical documentation, incident analyses, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge-base articles.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on Java development experience and experience building enterprise applications with Spring Boot and microservices.
- Strong experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting Java services on Kubernetes in public cloud environments.
- Experience with trading platforms, real-time systems, or other low-latency, high-throughput business-critical platforms.
- Experience serving as a technical lead or senior engineer influencing design, delivery, architecture, and engineering standards.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, system design, data structures, algorithms, and service-oriented architecture.
- Expertise in concurrency, multithreading, JVM tuning, memory management, profiling, benchmarking, and performance optimization.
- Experience troubleshooting production issues across applications, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and observability layers.
- Familiarity with TCP, HTTP, WebSocket, and FIX and with optimizing network communication.
- Experience with deployment automation, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience working in Agile engineering environments and collaborating effectively with globally distributed teams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills for explaining complex technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP; Kubernetes ecosystem tools; GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins; Terraform; and observability platforms such as DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk, or BigPanda.
- Knowledge of trading systems, FX markets, market data platforms, order execution flows, or financial-market infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices across teams is preferred.
- Experience using AI-assisted tools for observability, operational automation, incident diagnosis, test generation, code analysis, or developer productivity is valued.
Benefits
- Annual Wellness Allowance, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings options, prescription drug coverage, and a 401(k) savings plan with company match.
- Basic life insurance, disability benefits, emergency backup dependent care, adoption assistance, commuter assistance, healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- The role is eligible for the LSEG Benefits program and Annual Incentive Plan; the posting does not state a remote, hybrid, or office work arrangement.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureDatadogGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmJavaJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusSplunkSpring BootTerraform
About London Stock Exchange Group
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) provides market infrastructure, financial data, and analytics to banks, asset managers, and corporations. Its businesses span capital markets (London Stock Exchange), post-trade clearing (LCH), and information services including FTSE Russell indices and the Refinitiv data platform, funded by transaction fees, subscriptions, and licensing. Headquartered in London and publicly listed on the LSE, the group serves global customers seeking trading, clearing, benchmarks, and enterprise data solutions.