# Lead Java Trading System Engineer

Hiring organization: [LSEG](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/lseg)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/e9e31a54-9c74-4fc3-bf04-931015830ea0

Listed on LSEG's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 113900 – 189900 USD per year

## Summary

A senior backend engineer role maintaining and extending LSEG's order management platform for equities, futures and options trading. This suits experienced Java developers who want to work on mission-critical systems at scale while contributing to next-generation trading infrastructure.

_Our summary, not LSEG's wording._

## Skills named

Apache Kafka, Apache Maven, Docker, Git, Gradle, Java, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Kubernetes, Linux, Microsoft Azure, Multithreading, PostgreSQL, Redis, Spring Boot, Unix

## Required

- 5+ years software engineering experience as individual contributor
- Financial industry experience building trading systems
- Strong Java fundamentals and JVM knowledge
- System architecture and design expertise
- Docker and Kubernetes experience
- Clean code practices and unit testing
- SOLID and DRY principles
- Low-latency development understanding
- Distributed version control with Git
- Build automation tools like Gradle or Maven
- Linux/Unix operating system experience
- RDBMS experience such as PostgreSQL
- Agile methodology familiarity

## Nice to have

- Test-driven development (TDD) experience
- CI/CD pipeline experience
- Spring and Spring Boot expertise
- Redis and Apache Kafka experience
- Cloud platform familiarity, ideally Azure
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

Apply on LSEG's site: https://lseg.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Careers/job/USA-New-York-28-Liberty-Street/Lead-Java-Trading-System-Engineer_R0116804-1