Lead Software Engineer

Description

The company is a global provider of financial markets infrastructure and data, headquartered in the United Kingdom, and has supported financial stability and growth for more than 300 years.

It has significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific (another part of the posting cites 65 countries), with about 25,000 staff, more than half in Asia Pacific.

You will lead a high-performing engineering team building strategic applications for the company's flagship workspace platform, encouraging excellence and new ideas within the team.

The company wants curious people who enjoy questioning how the technology industry is changing, tackle complicated problems and are creative problem solvers.

Career stage: Manager.

Responsibilities

• Own the full development cycle: gathering requirements, designing architecture, writing code, unit testing and integration, keeping output high-quality and aligned with the product roadmap.
• Manage iterative releases and make sound decisions at each stage of delivery.
• Work with business, product and UX colleagues to define and refine requirements for major improvements to the workspace applications.
• Work with DevOps so infrastructure stays reliable, scalable and well monitored, with service running without interruption.
• Explain business and technical strategy to your team and keep their work aligned with company goals.
• Send the development director regular updates on progress, architecture decisions, dependencies and roadblocks.
• Coach team members to build their technical skills, development practices and ways of working, and take part in hiring to grow the team.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field.
• Strong front-end skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, React or Angular, and NodeJS, plus full-stack work. Back-end knowledge is required.
• A consistent record of managing several projects and complex product cycles in an Agile setting, including leading distributed, cross-functional teams to hit deadlines.
• Ability to set the product and technology vision for critical program components and lead teams from ideas through to delivery.
• Hands-on: you keep coding and designing applications while also managing people and delivery.
• Comfortable exploring and adopting AI-enabled tools, such as copilots, automation and data-driven insights, to improve productivity, decisions and ways of working.
• Customer-focused, able to spot project opportunities, understand customer needs and help gather requirements.
• Clear written and verbal communication with senior management, business representatives, partners and customers.
• Sharp analytical and troubleshooting skills with a solution-minded approach.
• Strong leadership and organisational skills.
• Plus: an MBA and/or PMP certification.
• Desirable: familiarity with at least one major cloud platform.

Conditions

The company is an equal opportunities employer that does not discriminate on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, disability or any other protected basis, and will reasonably accommodate religious practices and beliefs, mental health needs and physical disabilities.

Benefits

• 25 days of holiday a year plus one extra day off for your birthday.
• Annual wellness allowance and a share purchase plan.
• Medical health insurance and a medical subscription covering preventive services.
• Life insurance, a pillar 3 private pension, meal vouchers and flexible benefits.
• Bookster and volunteering events.
• Continuous learning through a wide range of formal and informal tools, plus competitive salaries.
• Colleagues with at least one year's continuous service who become parents get at least 26 weeks' paid leave, with the option of a phased return under company policy.