Associate Software Engineer

About the job

About LSEG We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Main Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code based on User Stories.
• Develop software using agile methodologies, adhering to team/company standards.
• Participate in planning sessions with team members to analyze requirements and provide design options, work breakdown and estimates of work.
• Demonstrate a focus on quality, through unit testing, integration testing and peer reviews, ensuring software meets requirements.
• Create, review, and maintain all required technical reference material to ensure supportability and reuse.
• Actively participate in team status meetings, providing timely status updates for areas of individual responsibilities within projects to supervisor.
  

Key Relationships

• Development Manager / Development Team Lead.
• Business Analysts.
• Agile team members.
  

Essential Skills/Experience Required:

• Experienced (0-3 years experience) software engineer with excellent knowledge of JAVA/J2EE echnologies
• Familiarity with other languages including Java and Python, and the ability to put that familiarity into practice.
• Solid technical background with understanding of programming styles, frameworks, design patterns and unit testing.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Understanding of security implications and secure coding
• Familiarity code management tools such as Git
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
• Superb communication skills, both verbal and written
• Skill for writing clean, readable code and reusable components
• Experienced in or a strong desire to work in a formal agile software development lifecycle.
• Familiar with continuous build and integration
• Experience with Test Driven Development and / or Behaviour Driven Development
  

Desired Skills/Experience Required:

• Cloud technologies
  

Education/ Certifications

• A good relevant degree is desirable, but experience and the right approach to work are just as important.
  

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose – driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth – in everything we do.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
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 any mental health or physical disability needs.
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