Senior Cloud-Native Distribution Engineer (AI-First)

LSEG; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Distribution team in London. You will help build next-generation distribution capabilities for index products, delivering data via APIs, cloud platforms, and file-based delivery with a strong focus on reliability, security and data quality.

The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of experience in software engineering, deep expertise in system design, distributed data modelling, and AWS-based cloud-native

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in system design, distributed systems, and relational data modelling.
• Experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Ability to write and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Experience designing test strategies at multiple levels of the testing pyramid.
• Proficiency with AI development tooling and a clear understanding of how to use AI to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality.
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems.
• Basic understanding of financial services or capital markets.
• Effective collaboration and the ability to communicate technical decisions to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale cloud-native distribution infrastructure with high resilience and performance requirements.
• Own system design and data modelling for sophisticated, multi-schema relational databases serving dynamic data workloads.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code, ensuring environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and secure.
• Design and implement test strategies including integration, contract, and end-to-end validation.
• Build secure, well-documented APIs and data delivery services for institutional financial clients.
• Lead technical direction through architectural guidance, code review, and pairing.
• Partner with product, operations, and client-facing teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

Skills

System design

Distributed systems

AWS

TypeScript

Python

SQL

AI tooling

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

OpenAPI

AWS CLI

Job description

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Distribution team in London. You will help build next-generation distribution capabilities for index products, delivering data via APIs, cloud platforms, and file-based delivery with a strong focus on reliability, security and data quality.

The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of experience in software engineering, deep expertise in system design, distributed data modelling, and AWS-based cloud-native