Senior Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

11/28/2024

Company Profile

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering services across Data & Analytics, Capital Markets, and Post Trade.

Backed by three hundred years of experience, innovative technologies, and a team of over 23,000 people in 70 countries, our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Role Profile

Are you passionate about making developers' lives easier, faster, and more fulfilling? Do you dream of streamlining workflows, squashing bugs, and fuelling innovation? We're on a mission to supercharge our engineering culture by building a world-class Developer community that's the envy of the industry.

We are looking for a Senior Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer to join our team. In this role, you'll be joining within the Engineering Excellence & Productivity (EXP) team as a Senior DevEx Engineer. This team serves as a bridge between a diverse set of teams with the key focus of enabling our developers to bring new software or new features to have better developer experience.

You will be responsible for enhancing the productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction of our development teams by designing and improving tooling, workflows, and processes. You will work closely with engineers across multiple teams to identify problems and bottlenecks, streamline development environments, and enable faster delivery of high-quality software.

As a Senior DevEx Engineer, you are expected to have a deep understanding of software development processes, a passion for automation, and a focus on enabling developers to work better and faster.

Key Responsibilities

• Developer Productivity Optimization: Identify and resolve developer problems related to code, build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Incident Response and Debugging / L2 Support: Assist teams in quickly diagnosing and resolving development environment, tools or pipeline-related issues, operate as proxy owner for tools and help triage the issues.
• Developer Desktop Tools and Services: Own software development tools approval by testing, evaluating, investigating the behaviour, raising with and following-up with vendors
• AI Inquisitive: Measure the effectiveness of AI tools on developer productivity and experience, research, prototype, and integrate AI tools and technologies that enhance developer workflows.
• Tooling & Automation: Develop and maintain internal tools and services that help automate repetitive tasks and improve development workflows
• Collaboration: Work closely with product teams, developer support teams, and platform engineers to deliver the best tools and practices for development workflows.
• Documentation & Education: Create documentation, guidelines, and best practices for internal tools, processes, and workflows. Conduct training sessions for developers to improve their productivity and adoption of new tools.
• Developer Onboarding: Streamline the developer onboarding process by building easy-to-use, self-service development environments.
• Performance and Scalability: Ensure developer tools and systems scale efficiently with team growth and increased codebase complexity.
  
  

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Experience: professional software engineering or software development experience, with a focus on improving developer workflows and productivity.
• Previous hand-on experience: Software Development, Business and Technical Analysis, Quality Assurance, Support Role and / or Emerging Technology and Governance.
• Languages & Frameworks: Strong programming skills in languages such as JavaScript, C, C++, Python, Java, Terraform, Ruby or others. Experience with version control (e.g., Git), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI), and build systems.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience with cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Automation: Expertise in automating software development processes and optimizing development environments.
• Tooling: Familiarity with modern development tools and practices, such as containers (Docker), Padman, Kubernetes, Microservices, Dev IDE's (Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, etc), Node.js.
• General understanding: SDLC Principles, PPM Tools (ex: Clarity, JIRA, Asana), Software packaging and bundling, Software distribution, Various OS Platform knowledge, Agile Principles including any hand on experience, minimum knowledge and understanding of financial markets are desirable.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills and ability to solve complex issues.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills and ability to work multi-functionally with teams in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, solid English reading/writing capability required.
• Ownership: Be driven and committed to the goals and objectives of the team and organization, ability to manage own work and multitask to meet tight deadlines without losing sight of priorities under minimum supervision.
• Adaptability: Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and technologies as the company grows and evolves.
  
  

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. 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 mental health or physical disability needs.

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