About Us:
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.
Proud to share LSEG in Romania is Great Place to Work certified (Sept ’24 – Sept ’25). Learn more about life and purpose of our company directly from the Romanian colleagues’ video: Bucharest, Romania | Where We Work | LSEG
Role Description:
Are you passionate about making developers' lives easier, faster, and more fulfilling? Do you dream of streamlining workflows, squashing bugs, and fuelling innovation? We're on a mission to supercharge our engineering culture by building a world-class Developer community that's the envy of the industry.
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our team. In this role, you'll be joining our Engineering Team within Engineering Excellence & Productivity (EXP) as a Senior Engineer. One of the principal aims of our team is to bring new software or new features to production as quickly as possible.
We are responsible for enhancing the productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction of our development teams by designing and improving tooling, workflows, and processes. You will work closely with engineers across multiple teams to identify problems and bottlenecks, streamline development environments, and enable faster delivery of high-quality software.
As a Senior Engineer, you are expected to have a deep understanding of software development processes, a passion for automation, and a focus on enabling developers to work better and faster.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developer Productivity Optimization: Identify and resolve developer problems related to code, build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Developer Desktop Tools and Services: Own software development tools approval by testing, evaluating, investigating behaviours, raise and follow-up with vendors
- Tooling & Automation: Develop and maintain internal tools and services that help automate repetitive tasks and improve development workflows (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, development environments, etc.).
- Collaboration: Work closely with product teams, DevOps, and platform engineers to deliver the best tools and practices for development workflows.
- Documentation & Education: Create documents, guidelines, and best practices for internal tools, processes, and workflows. Conduct training sessions for developers to improve their productivity and adoption of new tools.
- Developer Onboarding: Streamline the developer onboarding process by building easy-to-use, self-service development environments.
- Performance and Scalability: Ensure developer tools and systems scale efficiently with team growth and increased codebase complexity.
- Ensure quality deliverables to ensure software meets or exceeds specified standards and objectives.
- Apply software engineering principles and practices to design, build, and run solutions which are scalable and reliable.
- Demonstrates significant knowledge of a single or multiple technologies and advises on design, development and implementation
- Advances tools and applications by producing clean and efficient code and reviews others' code when required
- Handles own workload and promotes an inclusive and open culture
- Understands the tech strategy and culture, and how they impact own work as well as adjacent teams
- Oversees the design work and planning for user journeys ensuring the achieve the desired objectives
- Develops understanding of LSEG's commercial direction and how technology is forming a part of this
- Completes the delivery of given tasks with some guidance and oversight
- Builds strong relationships with senior internal partners, growing network and collaborating with own team and colleagues in other domains. Communicates complex information clearly to relevant audiences
- Must interact with global teams in time zones spanning UK, US, APAC areas.
- Participate in Project related activities to meet operational needs.
Tech Profile
- DevOps Principles including CI/CD
- Developer Tools (ex: GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
- General understanding of Databases
- Previous experience in a Project delivery, Coordination or Support role
- Previous experience of Software Development, Business and Technical Analysis, Quality Assurance, and / or Emerging Technology and Governance
- PPM Tools (ex: Clarity, JIRA, Asana)
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Proficiency in wireframing and prototyping tools
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and best-practices
- Visual design and design software
- User research and usability testing
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Hands on Experience with professional software engineering, with a focus on improving developer workflows and productivity.
- Previous hand-on experience: Software Development, Business and Technical Analysis, Quality Assurance, Support Role and / or Emerging Technology and Governance.
- Languages & Frameworks: Strong programming skills in languages such as JavaScript, C, C++, Python, Java, Terraform, Ruby or others. Experience with version control (e.g., Git), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI), and build systems.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience with cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
- Automation: Expertise in automating software development processes and optimizing development environments.
- Tooling: Familiarity with modern development tools and practices, such as containers (Docker), Padman, Kubernetes, Microservices, Dev IDE's (Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, etc), Node.js.
- General understanding: Databases, DevOps Principles, PPM Tools (ex: Clarity, JIRA, Asana), Agile Principles including any hand on experience, minimum knowledge and understanding of financial markets are desirable.
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills and ability to investigate and solve complex issues.
- Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills and ability to work multi-functionally with teams in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, excellent English reading/writing capability required.
- Ownership: Be driven and committed to the goals and objectives of the team and organization, ability to manage own work and multitask to meet tight deadlines without losing sight of priorities under minimum supervision.
- Adaptability: Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and technologies as the company grows and evolves.
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Deploys agile best-practices as appropriate throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Analyses infrastructure requirements and designs the architecture for central or distributed processing to meet user requirements.
- Creates, applies and implements technologies to deliver and produce services with minimal human intervention, to improve the efficiency, reliability and speed tasks.
- Develops, tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures; demonstrates creativity and innovation using available software development tools and following design requirements.
- Creates and maintains documentation to describe the system and its parts, including requirements documents, design decisions, architecture descriptions, program source code and support documentation.
- Possesses depth of technical expertise, knowledge of technologies and design, development and implementation of technologies.
- Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
- Shows ability to come up with new ideas and novel approaches to problems and establish solutions through different methods.
- Partners with clients and resolves issues by diagnosing problems, determining possible resolutions and implementing effective solutions
- Defines a problem, generates solutions, and evaluates and identifies the best solution to overcome the problem.
- Interacts well with others, quickly establishing rapport building positive relationships and networks.
- Ensures a product/service meets or exceeds specified standards and objectives to achieve desired level of quality
Education and Professional Skills
- Curious about new technologies and tools, creative thinking and initiative taking.
- Solid English reading/writing capability required.
- Strong communication & collaboration skills.
- Commitment to DevOps culture
- Familiarity with Agile principles including any hand on experience
Benefits:
We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!
We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:
- 25 days’ holiday per year
- 1 additional day off for your Birthday
- Annual wellness allowance
- Share Purchase Plan
- Medical Health Insurance
- Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
- Dental Coverage
- Life insurance
- Pillar 3 Private Pension
- Meal Vouchers
- Flexible Benefits
- Bookster
- Volunteering Events
- All LSEG colleagues with at least one year’s continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks’ paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company’s policy and guidelines
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.
