Senior Engineer - Post Trade

Role Profile

The successful candidate for the Stellar Senior Developer role, will work with Stellar Director of Technical Solutions & Delivery, will form part of a team building a complex and from grounds up new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service in a bold new venture part of LSEG.  This exciting opening requires a candidate who takes great pride in deliver excellence with excellent logical and technical skills and a can-do mindset combined with a helpful mentality, and a wish to play a critical role in forming and growing a new business.

Key Responsibilities

Build, deliver and maintain the multiple components of the Trade Agent platform ensuring timely delivery of work items. Resolve a high impact problem through in-depth evaluation of complex architectures, business processes and industry standards. Serve as advisor to develop highly resilient and future proof solutions. Contribute to research and suggest for new projects for the Trade Agent platform. Willing to take new responsibilities based on projects need and circumstances. Contribute and guide the program initiatives in engineering excellence and learning and development. Ensure work is well documented and communicated with the team and our customer with their expectations proactively handled. Be challenging and questioning while ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a one team mentality is promoted.

Key Skills and Experience

Microservices architecture

• You have excellent understanding of microservices designs, its pitfalls, and industry leading practices.
• You have knowledge of Domain Driven Design and event driven architecture.
• You have built and maintained dev-ops pipelines for delivering applications ideally using GitLab.
• You used shift left testing principles and frameworks using technology such as Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Contract Test (PACT), TestContainers or other similar technology.

Advanced ReactJS programming

• Proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js).
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus.
• Familiarity with RESTful & GraphQL APIs.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Familiarity with Git.

Front-End Technology experience:

•  HTML5, CSS3, SASS/SCSS, LESS
•  JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript
•  React.js, Redux, Context API, React Router
•  Styled components, Emotion
•  CSS-in-JS libraries

Build Tools:

• Webpack, Babel, NPM/Yarn, Gulp, Grunt

Testing:

• Jest, React Testing Library, Enzyme
• End-to-end testing frameworks (e.g., Cucumber, Cypress, Selenium)

Agile ways of working

• You understand and believe in the ethos of agile working.
• You have experience of working in Scrum/Kanban model.
• You can participate and actively collaborate and contribute to sprint ceremonies including Product Backlog Refinement
• You have the experience of collaborating with multi-functional teams in scaled agile setups.

The following skills are a nice to have but not essential.

• You have developed applications using Java or Scala

Key Behaviours

• You have demonstrated a keen focus on delivery excellence, meeting commitments and managing expectations.
• You can demonstrate ability to take on responsibility and be accountable for it.
• You can work well within a team, is able to be helpful and collaborate with each other for the good of the
• You are able to work with product, architecture and delivery to understand their requirements in depth and translate that into robust timely delivered applications.
• You can be critical and challenging while maintain respect.
• You understand the importance of communication within a team and have championed it in the past.
• You have a desire to learn, improve and innovate.
• You have very high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• You are an engineer at heart that enjoys working with various technologies have an appetite for taking on challenges and maximising new technologies while minimising complexity.

Diversity & Inclusion

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business.  Our colleagues excel personally and professionally through our shared values of Integrity, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence are at the core of our culture.  We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives.  We are always looking at ways to become more agile so we meet the needs of our teams and customers. We believe that an inclusive collaborative workplace is pivotal to our success and supports the potential and growth of all colleagues at LSEG.

Values & Behaviours

Integrity:  My word is my bond. Integrity underpins all that we do – from unshakable commitment to building and supporting global markets based on transparency and trust, to every transaction across our business with each and every stakeholder.  We are a source of enduring confidence in the financial system, so when we say that our work is our bond – we mean it.

Partnership:  We collaborate to succeed. We pride ourselves on working together as proactive partners, building positive relationships with our colleagues, customers, investors, regulators, governments and shareholders – for our mutual success and the benefit of all.

Innovation:  We nurture new ideas. We are ambitious and forward-looking – a pioneering Group of market innovators, driven by fresh thinking that has kept us ahead of change. We prudently and proactively invest to make sure that out markets and services constantly moving forward, developing and evolving with advances in technology.

Excellence:  We are committed to quality. We have a fundamental commitment to developing talented teams who deliver to the highest standards in all that we do.  By collaborating together, we will sustain industry-leading levels of excellence, setting the benchmarks that inspire ever better performance.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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