Senior Java Developer
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- The Senior lead Scala Engineer will play a key role in the engineering and delivery of a critical market‑infrastructure service within the Equities platform, with a strong focus on AWS cloud‑native development
- Reporting directly to the Senior Technical Delivery Engineer, Post Trade, the successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining performant, resilient, and scalable backend services built predominantly in Scala
- As a senior member of the engineering team, this individual will help shape technical direction, contribute to best-in-class engineering standards, and actively support the continued growth and evolution of the business
- This exciting opportunity requires a candidate to take Pride in their work and Ownership of their work. Have excellent engineering skills, communication skills, can-do behaviour and highly collaborative. Always positively encouraging the team
- A strong focus on engineering excellence and coding, adopting an open and hands-on approach to problem-solving and delivery. Engage deeply in technical design and implementation to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices
- Actively contribute to all stages of the product engineering life cycle—solutioning, design, coding, and testing—while promoting collaboration and transparency within the team to drive high-quality outcomes
- Demonstrate ownership and pride in work, proactively taking on new responsibilities aligned with product engineering needs. Embrace and apply LSEG engineering principles, diving deep technically to build with purpose and foster excellence within the team through open collaboration
- Create an environment of engagement, challenge, and constructive questioning, ensuring trust and respect are maintained and a strong one-team mentality is upheld
- Working knowledge of event/message brokers such as Kafka and MQ
- Expertise in building and maintaining DevOps pipelines, ideally with GitLab
- Proficient in shift-left testing using tools like JUnit, Cucumber, Gherkin, PACT, and Test Containers
- Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of microservices design, including pitfalls and best practices
- Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and event-driven architecture principles
- Skilled in event-driven patterns for efficient and robust communication
- Akka – for building concurrent, distributed, and resilient message‑driven systems
- Deep practical expertise with Scala, including key frameworks and libraries such as:
- Strong proficiency in both functional and object‑oriented programming paradigms, with the ability to apply the right approach to deliver robust, maintainable solutions
- Play Framework – for developing scalable, high‑performance web applications
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and multi‑threading, with the ability to design efficient and scalable solutions for high‑throughput systems
- Cats / Scalaz – for implementing advanced functional programming abstractions and patterns
- Proven experience delivering enterprise‑grade Scala applications in production environments, with a focus on quality, resilience, performance, and observability
- Basic understanding of cloud networking concepts
- Strong SQL knowledge with experience in relational databases such as Postgres
- Familiarity with database version control tools like Flyway and Liquibase
- Working knowledge of object storage solutions, e.g., AWS S3
- Cloud Architecture
- Hands-on use of cloud-based services such as AWS Aurora, MSK, S3, and IAM
- Experience working with major public cloud platforms, preferably AWS
- Experience working within Scrum and Kanban frameworks
- You have some experience of writing applications using Java
- Strong understanding and commitment to the ethos of agile working
- You have developed Web applications using ReactJS
- Proven collaboration with cross-functional teams in scaled agile environments
- Active participation in sprint ceremonies, including Product Backlog Refinement