Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Platform Transformation Lead

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX); Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is seeking a senior software engineer to join our SPM technology team in London. You will deputise for the Head of SPM technology and work with wider tech teams to engineer and integrate new and existing services, supporting the strategic roadmap.

You will perform full-stack engineering across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, collaborating with business teams and vendors to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software engineering foundations with demonstrable experience delivering production‑grade applications.
• Strong Java application engineering experience, ideally with modern enterprise Java frameworks.
• .NET engineering background is preferable, particularly where it supports application modernisation and interoperability.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve modern application services that support a strategic business platform, with a focus on quality, maintainability, and performance.
• Develop backend services and APIs that support the evolution of core business capabilities from established platforms into modern services.
• Contribute to modern internal and customer-facing user experiences, helping deliver intuitive, secure, and browser-based solutions.
• Partner with product teams, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust engineering solutions.
• Apply strong engineering practices including automated testing, peer review, continuous integration and deployment, and high-quality technical documentation.
• Help ensure services are observable, supportable, and reliable in production through effective logging, monitoring, and operational diagnostics.
• Work closely with platform and vendor teams to align engineering delivery with enterprise standards and runtime patterns.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering practices, platform capability, and team effectiveness.

Skills

Java

.Net

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Linux

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Web APIs

Job description

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is seeking a senior software engineer to join our SPM technology team in London. You will deputise for the Head of SPM technology and work with wider tech teams to engineer and integrate new and existing services, supporting the strategic roadmap.

You will perform full-stack engineering across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, collaborating with business teams and vendors to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.