Sr. Software Engineer

LSEG Business Services RM; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group Information in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Associate to design and deliver AI-enabled backend services using Java (Spring Boot) and Python. The role leads a sprint team, drives architecture decisions, and mentors engineers while ensuring scalable, secure, and observable systems.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into practical tech solutions, work with data pipelines, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems, and contribute hands-on with AWS,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend focus and leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable AI-enabled backend services, APIs, and data pipelines using Java and Python.
• Lead sprint team or squad, guiding design, estimation, and delivery.
• Mentor engineers through reviews and knowledge transfer.
• Improve engineering quality with automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and security.

Skills

Java (Spring Boot)

Python

RESTful APIs & microservices

SQL PostgreSQL

Snowflake

AWS-Docker-Kubernetes

Kafka-Redis

AI-assisted development

Leadership & mentoring

Agile / Scrum

Tools

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Redis

LLM APIs

Job description

About the Role

As part of the AI & Data Engineering group, The team builds internal and customer-facing AI focused web applications for monitoring, onboarding, workflow management, and reporting across LSEG's real-time data and delivery estate. We work closely with business interested parties and customers to deliver reliable, data-driven solutions that simplify operations and improve user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable AI enabled backend services, RESTful APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and reporting solutions using Java (Spring Boot) and Python.
• Act as the technical lead for a sprint team or squad, guiding solution design, technical decisions, estimation, delivery, and resolution of engineering blockers.
• Lead Agile ceremonies, including refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and delivery tracking.
• Collaborate with interested parties, Business Analysts, Product Owners, QA, and engineering teams to shape requirements and deliver practical solutions.
• Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, solving, knowledge Transfer, and engineering guidance.
• Drive engineering quality across automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, code quality, documentation, and production support.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability requirements.
• Champion responsible use of AI-assisted development to improve engineering quality, productivity, and team capability.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong hands-on backend development and technical leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in Java (Spring Boot), with good working knowledge of Python.
• Experience designing, building, integrating, and supporting RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong SQL and relational database experience (PostgreSQL or similar), with exposure to Snowflake or other cloud data warehouse technologies.
• Experience making pragmatic architecture and design decisions, assessing technical trade-offs, and translating requirements into maintainable solutions.
• Experience leading technical delivery for a squad or small team while remaining hands‑on with development.
• Experience with automated testing, Git, CI/CD pipelines, code quality practices, and modern software delivery processes.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and event‑driven architecture using Kafka, Redis, or similar technologies.
• Experience solving production systems using logs, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and debugging tools, with a methodical approach to root cause analysis.
• Strong understanding of secure coding, common application vulnerabilities, authentication, authorization, and operational risk.
• Strong communication, mentoring, interested party engagement, and problem‑solving skills.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development, prompt and context engineering, LLM APIs, AI agents, MCP, and RAG‑based solutions, with a responsible approach to correctness, security, privacy, and maintainability.

Good to Have

• Experience with Angular or another modern JavaScript frontend framework, such as React, with the ability to contribute to frontend applications when needed.

What Success Looks Like

• Provides clear technical direction while continuing to contribute hands‑on to delivery.
• Helps the squad effectively, resolve blockers, and deliver reliable solutions in manageable increments.
• Raises engineering standards through mentoring, reviews, automation, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Builds trusted relationships with interested parties and turns business needs into practical technical outcomes.
• Helps maintain secure, scalable, resilient, and well‑documented systems ac

Career Stage:

Senior Associate

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

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.

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.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not d

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