Associate Software Engineer

LSEG; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

LSEG is seeking an Associate backend engineer in Bengaluru to design, implement, and operate Java microservices on AWS. You will own CI/CD pipelines, write tests, and contribute to security and observability. Collaboration with product and operations teams is essential to deliver features end-to-end.

Ideal candidates have 2–5 years of backend experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and SQL/NoSQL datastores. A strong foundation in AWS and containerization is expected.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of professional backend experience with Java and AWS.
• Ability to design, implement, test and maintain microservices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Design & Build Java microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Develop and operate services on AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda).
• Own build pipelines and artifact management across CI tools.
• Write unit/integration tests and ensure code quality.
• Implement observability with logging, metrics, tracing.
• Apply secure coding practices and IAM principles.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps/SRE to deliver features.

Skills

Java 11+

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Datastores — PostgreSQL/MySQL

AWS Essentials

CI/CD

Testing

Git

Docker

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

About LSEG

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 commitment 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. 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. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG. www.lseg.com

Key Responsibilities

• Design & Build: Develop clean, testable, and efficient Java (Java 11+/17) code for microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Cloud & Infra: Build, deploy, and operate services on AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda, API Gateway/ALB, S3, RDS/DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch).
• CI/CD: Own build and deployment pipelines (GitLab CI/GitHub Actions/Jenkins), versioning, and artifact management.
• Quality: Write unit/integration tests (JUnit/Mockito/Testcontainers); maintain code quality via linters and code reviews.
• Observability: Implement logging, metrics, and tracing (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK).
• Security & Compliance: Apply secure coding, manage secrets (AWS Secrets Manager/SSM), and least-privilege IAM.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Product, QA, DevOps/SRE to deliver features end-to-end.

Must-Have Skills

• Programming: Java 11+ (core, collections, concurrency), OOP, design patterns, functional constructs, Streams.
• Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring Web/MVC, Spring Data/JPA; familiarity with Hibernate.
• APIs & Protocols: REST, JSON; hands‑on with API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger).
• Datastores: RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and at least one NoSQL (DynamoDB/Redis); SQL proficiency.
• AWS Essentials:
• Compute: ECS/EKS or Lambda
• Networking: VPC, subnets, SGs, IAM basics
• Integration: SQS/SNS, API Gateway/ALB
• Storage/DB: S3, RDS or DynamoDB
• Ops: CloudWatch/CloudTrail
• Build & CI/CD: Maven/Gradle; pipelines in GitLab CI/GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Containers: Docker fundamentals; familiarity with containerizing Java apps.
• Testing: JUnit, Mockito; understanding of test pyramid and code coverage.
• Version Control: Git workflows (feature branches, PRs/MRs, trunk or GitFlow)

Good‑to‑Have (Preferred)

• Kubernetes (EKS), ECS
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Caching: Redis/ElastiCache and cache‑aside patterns

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 2–5 years of professional experience building backend services with Java and AWS.
• Demonstrated ownership of features from design to production support.

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 enhance each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal.

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.

Career Stage

Associate

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