Lead Software Engineer – Workspace UI Core Apps

Lead Software Engineer

As part of the Workspace Core Apps team, you will contribute to building and evolving flagship UI applications used by more than 120,000 global financial professionals! These applications power critically important clients workflows by using real-time and fundamental financial data across markets and asset classes.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Lead Software Engineer to join our international, multicultural engineering team. You will play a key role in architecting, developing, and delivering core capabilities together for some of the most widely used and business-critical applications in LSEG Workspace, such as Monitor and Quote.

You will work closely with front-end, back-end, and quality engineers in an Agile environment, taking ownership and driving engineering excellence.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing front-end (and sometimes full-stack) features for Workspace's Core UI applications
• Building robust, high-performance UI components handling real-time and data from different sources
• Driving engineering guidelines, code quality, and performance optimizations
• Collaborating with a distributed team of engineers, product owners, and UX designers
• Contributing to continuous team improvement, using AI tools like Copilot
• Participating in 2-week Agile sprints, delivering incremental value and gathering frequent client feedback

What you'll bring:

Technical Expertise

Front-End:

• TypeScript
• Angular or REACT
• AngularJS (nice to have for legacy components)

Back-End:

• NodeJS
• .NET / C# (nice to have)

Professional Skills:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Autonomy, proactivity, and ownership mentality
• Experience delivering products used by real clients
• Comfortable working in a global multicultural environment
• High proficiency in English

What you'll get in return:

• The opportunity to build applications used daily by tens of thousands of customers worldwide
• A highly collaborative and multicultural work environment
• The ability to directly influence flagship products within LSEG Workspace
• Continuous learning and growth through modern technologies and Agile practices.
• LSEG partnership with Microsoft (Azure)
• A culture of ownership, engineering excellence, and customer focus
• Frequent feedback loops ensuring your work has direct user impact

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how the 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 maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

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 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.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.