Intern - Software Engineer

London Stock Exchange Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 56,000 - 93,000; Part time

Job summary

The London Stock Exchange Group is offering a Software Engineer Summer Internship in the Post Trade Solutions (PTS) engineering team, based in New York. You will join a team of engineers and work on projects solving real problems, collaborating with the Product Development team to enhance services and deliver secure data processing in the cloud.

Eligible candidates are in the penultimate year of an undergraduate degree and plan to pursue a Masters for 2027/28, studying Computer Science,

Qualifications

• Penultimate year of an undergraduate program or final-year student planning to pursue a Masters for 2027/28.
• Studying Computer Science, Engineering or related tech field.
• Strong Python skills for executable and repeatable programs; data analytics not required.

Responsibilities

• Work on real projects in the Post Trade Solutions (PTS) team in NYC.
• Collaborate with 5–10 engineers and product development to enhance services.
• Build and research improvements to applications and environment within the Core Technology team.

Skills

Python

PyData stack

UNIX command line

AWS

Frontend development

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

Job description

Programme starts: June 2027 Duration: 12 Weeks Our Software Engineer Summer Internship has been crafted so that you can understand what a career in the Post Trade Solutions (PTS) engineering team at LSEG would really be like. In the internship you will work on projects solving real problems and work as part of a team with experienced engineers. This position is within the Optimisation Core Technology Team, part of the Post Trade Engineering division based in New York office. To be eligible, you should be in the penultimate year of your undergraduate or final year of an Undergraduate degree and plan to continue onto Masters for academic year 2027/28 studying Computer Science, Engineering, or any other relevant tech field.

Internship Summary

The Core Technology team creates the systems that deliver the optimisation services to clients. It is this team’s responsibility to design and build systems that permit financial market participants to securely provide risk and trade data to the company, to deliver that data to the optimisation services developed by the financial engineers, and to return the output of those computations safely back to the participants in a timely manner. In addition, the systems should provide feedback to the clients to help them understand the results as well as how they can modify their parameters and data to gain improvements in the future. Our systems live in the cloud, hosted by AWS, and leverage lambdas, EC2, RDS, and Redshift. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of 5-10 engineers to build and research improvements to the applications & environment. They will work directly with the Product Development team to enhance the services based on feedback from clients and analysis of runs as well as on strategic projects.

Examples of possible projects

• Designing and building a new workflow to run data quality (DQ) checks on financial data submitted by the clients
• Collaborate with the Analytics team to leverage their pricing algorithms in our DQ checks
• Building the internal portal screens used by the Product team to perform the optimisations
• Implement the code providing connectivity to external booking systems, trade stores, etc.
• Enhance our task queueing system to improve resource utilisation

What we are looking for

We are passionate about recruiting people who are interested in pursuing a career within Financial Engineering and would like to learn about the full breadth of our business – and are interested in playing a part of our development, as it grows and diversifies. Solid understanding of python for executable & repeatable programs (as opposed to data analytics). Affinity to PyData stack is preferred. Someone who can collaborate with others, using their communication skills in the process. A curiosity for data and an ability to analyse information to draw conclusions and propose solutions. Familiarity with UNIX command line Some experience with AWS and/or frontend development is a plus Ideal candidates will have the rights to work in the London or New York City without restrictions for the duration of the internship programme You will stand out to us if you can demonstrate and recognise that what you achieve is equally important as how you achieve it.

Applications close: 30th November, we recommend an early application because we consider candidates on a rolling basis and may close applications early.

Recruitment Process

The first stage of the recruitment process involves making an application and submitting your resume. The second stage is completing Technical and Coding Assessment. This technical assessment is designed to evaluate your coding ability, logical reasoning and problem-solving skills. The next stage of the application process is an untimed Immersive Online Assessment. The assessment is designed to give you an insight into what it’s like to work at LSEG. The third stage is a video interview where you will answer a series of questions using a strength-based-interview style. The final stage is a virtual half day assessment centre which involves several different types of exercises – further information is provided at the point of invite.

Life at LSEG

We believe hybrid working makes more possible and recognise difference as a good thing. We want to set everyone up to bring their best self to work. Everyone will spend time with colleagues in the office (3 days), but you’ll be trusted to work flexibly, in a way that delivers excellence.

Career Stage: Associate Compensation/Benefits Information

LSEG is committed to offering competitive Compensation and Benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $55,500 - $92,500. Please be aware base salary ranges may vary by geographic location, city and state. In addition to our offered base salary, this role is eligible for our Variable Incentive Compensation plan. Target variable compensation will be commensurate with the posted career stage. Individual salary will be reflective of job related knowledge, skills and equivalent experience.

LSEG roles (excluding internships and part-time roles of less than 20 hours per week) are typically eligible for inclusion in our LSEG Benefits program, which includes offerings of:

• Annual Wellness Allowance
• Paid time-off
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flex Spending & Health Savings Options
• Prescription Drug plan
• 401(K) Savings Plan
• Company match

LSEG’s Benefits plan also includes basic life insurance, disability benefits, emergency backup dependent care, adoption assistance commuter assistance etc.

• basic life insurance
• disability benefits
• emergency backup dependent care
• adoption assistance
• commuter assistance etc.

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Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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.

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• paid volunteering days
• wellbeing initiatives

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