Lseg
Lead Software & Platform Engineer
USA-New York-28 Liberty Street · Senior · Part-time
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$216kDetected 20 days ago
JavaSpringDistributed SystemsData StructuresAlgorithmsGitElasticsearchAWSAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsPrometheusGrafanaDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringWebSocketsStakeholder Management
About the role
- Curiosity, a learning mindset, and the practical application of AI-enabled engineering practices are most important.
- The anticipated base salary for this position is $129,700 - $216,100.
- Please be aware base salary ranges may vary by geographic location, city and state.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of large-scale, low-latency, high-throughput trading platform services within the FX Engineering group.
- Build and maintain production-grade Java, Spring Boot, and microservices-based applications that support critical trading workflows.
- Design, build, deploy, and operate Java services running on Kubernetes in public cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Remain hands-on with the codebase while providing technical leadership across design, implementation, testing, release, and production support.
- Perform deep technical analysis of complex production issues across application, platform, infrastructure, network, and deployment layers.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering best practices in coding, performance engineering, system design, observability, and operational excellence.
- Partner closely with architects, product teams, DevOps, infrastructure, and other engineering groups to define and deliver scalable solutions for FX trading.
- Design, build, and support high-performance trading venues, platform services, and real-time data processing components.
- Lead efforts to improve system observability, reliability, alerting, troubleshooting, and operational readiness.
- Develop automation to detect, prevent, and resolve production issues, reducing manual effort, downtime, and latency impact.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java development, with a passion for writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and production-grade code.
Compensation
- The anticipated base salary for this position is $129,700 - $216,100.
- Please be aware base salary ranges may vary by geographic location, city and state.
- Individual salary will be reflective of job related knowledge, skills and equivalent experience.
Benefits
- LSEG is committed to offering competitive Compensation and Benefits.
- In addition to our offered base salary, this role is eligible for our Annual Incentive Plan (AIP/"bonus plan").
- Annual Wellness Allowance, Paid time-off, Medical, Dental, Vision, Flex Spending & Health Savings Options, Prescription Drug plan, 401(K) Savings Plan and Company match.
- LSEG's Benefits plan also includes basic life insurance, disability benefits, emergency backup dependent care, adoption assistance commuter assistance etc.
- LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
Company info
- Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
- 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.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
- You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas.
Equal opportunity
- However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.
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