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London Stock Exchange
Lead Software Engineer
Skills
SQL QueriesJavaTesting & QAKafkaRedisGitLabAWSKubernetesWorkdayOracleTerraformAzure
6 days ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Location:
Nottingham, UK
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
13 October 2026
What they need
- The successful candidate will collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to build and implement the technical strategy for a set of Engineering Products within our FX group
- They will ensure business requirements are applied and lean on their experience of software engineering and development lifecycles to lead change in exciting software challenges and customer solutions
- The Workflows Engineering team are recruiting a C++ Lead Software Engineer to play a crucial role in our organisation
- The successful candidate will become part of an engineering team addressing complex challenges and taking these to resolution
- This provides a phenomenal opportunity for individuals who enjoy solving a variety of problems and who relish the chance to lead the resolution of exciting and new challenges on a regular basis
- In an era of rapidly evolving AI capabilities, we’re seeking engineers who bring experience with established development tools and technologies, alongside the vision and ambition to integrate them into modern, AI-first ways of working and delivering value
- Act as a subject matter expert, advising on design, development, and implementation
- Deliver high-quality solutions through expert coding and tooling
- Own workload while contributing to an open, inclusive team culture
- Serve as a domain point of contact, with deep expertise and awareness of cross-domain dependencies
- Align work to technology/domain strategy and support its delivery; contribute to strategy where relevant
- Build understanding of the market and LSEG’s commercial position
- Lead projects autonomously, delegating where needed and supporting team delivery
- Partner with architects to define and implement solutions
- Lead design and planning for Epics, breaking them into stories with Product and QA
- Apply and adapt engineering patterns to deliver robust solutions
- Build and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
- Continuously develop technical and industry expertise (e.g. certifications, qualifications)- Experience or familiarity with financial messaging protocols - particularly FIX is desirable
- Kafka (event-driven messaging)
- Terraform / Helm
- REST / WebSocket
- SQL (Oracle / SQL Server)
- Experience in 3+ of:
- Occasional out of hours work, including overnight and at weekends and Bank Holidays may be requested, as well as on-call technical support
- GitLab CI (or AWS equivalents)
- Azure PaaS (Event Hub, Azure SQL, Kubernetes, Azure Cache, etc.)
- Strong programming skills in at least one language (C++ preferred; Java/others a plus)
- Exposure to at least one of: Business/Technical Analysis, QA, Delivery Management, or Emerging Tech & Governance
- Consistent track record in software development and delivery technology and industry expertise through certifications, professional qualifications
- Redis
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