Lead Engineer, AI Platforms
London Stock Exchange Group
As Lead Engineer you will drive the development of secure, scalable backend and frontend systems while shaping engineering best practices. You will combine hands-on delivery with technical leadership, guiding architecture, solution implementation, and workflow improvement. You will embed AI capabilities into production systems and mentor a cross-functional team to deliver high-quality, trusted digital products. This is a high-impact role at a global, innovation-driven firm that values collaboration and continuous improvement.
Pay / Benefits- healthcare
- retirement planning
- paid volunteering days
- wellbeing initiatives
- Lead development of secure, scalable backend and frontend systems
- Define architectural direction, coding standards, and development best practices
- Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional teams to plan and deliver features
- Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and guide technical decision-making
- Improve deployment, monitoring, and operational processes
- Lead integration of AI capabilities, including model deployment and performance monitoring
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with technical leadership
- Expertise in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and MongoDB
- Experience with ReactJS, JavaScript, and TypeScript
- Strong secure coding knowledge (OWASP principles)
- Experience with CI/CD, Git workflows, automated testing
- Experience leading AI feature development or integrating ML models into production systems
- mentoring
- cross-functional collaboration
- strong technical judgement
- Java/Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
Reference: WJ-747_31165344