Senior Software Development Engineer C++

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.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer C++ for LSEG’s Elektron Real Time Data Distribution System in the Real Time Core team. The successful candidate will combine strong technical and collaboration skills in a demanding and dynamic environment. You will work directly with your team and with groups across the organisation to ensure the best service for our client base. You will be a member of a multi-skilled team building and maintaining components for our market leading Elektron system. We strive for our engineers to work within agile teams that emphasize standard process and believe quality is everyone’s responsibility.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Engage with the product owner, team lead, architects and other members of the global team to help build world-class solutions addressing customer needs.
• Demonstrating a consistent focus on quality and security, you'll deliver reliable, and robust solutions.
• Take initiative to develop knowledge in technology products and tools through on the job learning, certifications and projects.
• Actively participating in Scrum meetings, you'll give timely status updates to the Team Lead and/or Scrum Master on areas for which you are responsible.
• You'll be an excellent communicator and very client focused with strong interpersonal skills.
• You'll ensure that the Knowledge Base is kept up to date with the team's knowledge and technical issues' resolution.

What You’ll Bring

Must have

• Strong C/C++ experience (minimum 5 years) for cross-platform development, particularly on Linux.
• Strong multithreading development experience.
• High performance software development, memory management experience.
• Low latency, high throughput development experience.
• TCP/Secure Socket Layer/UDP.
• Multicast development experience.
• Strong development and migration experience using the Cloud technologies like AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Podman and Kubernetes).
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to react to and keep up with quickly changing technical events and requirements.

Nice to have

• Development of Scripting Languages including Python, JS and Node.
• Knowledge of building automation.

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).
• 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.

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Key skills/competency

• C++
• Linux
• Multithreading
• High Performance Computing
• Low Latency Systems
• Cloud Platforms
• Containerization
• TCP/UDP/Multicast
• Problem Solving
• Agile Methodologies