# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: FTSE Russell
**Location**: IND-Bangalore-A, RMZ Infinity
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

FTSE Russell is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the team building the Real Time Framework (RTF), a low-latency, cloud-native platform for calculating, managing and distributing FTSE Russell's real-time indices at global scale.

The ideal candidate is a self-sufficient, technically excellent engineer who can lead through architectural clarity, thorough code review, and hands-on delivery. The role involves building low-latency, event-driven calculation engines, operating a cloud-native platform, and delivering secure APIs and streaming distribution.

**Responsibilities:**

- Build low-latency, event-driven calculation engines that price indices accurately through market events.

- Operate a cloud-native, horizontally scalable, always-on platform, built as resilient and managed through infrastructure as code.

- Own data foundations for real-time market and reference data, with strong modelling, quality and auditability.

- Deliver secure APIs and streaming, event-driven distribution that make real-time index data easy to consume.

- Help bring advanced and multi-asset methodologies to market.

- Modernise the operations experience: replace manual workflows with intuitive tooling and observability.

- Lead through architecture, code review and test strategy, partnering across product, operations and client-facing teams.

**Tech Stack:**

- Development: Java, C#, Python, SQL, OpenAPI

- Cloud: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, Aurora, and others as required)

- Databases: Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ, Aurora Postgres

- IaC and CI/CD: Terraform, AWS CLI, GitLab

- AI Development: Agentic AI tooling (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)

**Experience We Value:**

- 9+ years of professional software engineering experience.

- Strong expertise in system design, distributed and event-driven systems, and relational data modelling.

- Solid experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS.

- Ability to write and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent).

- Experience designing test strategies at multiple levels of the testing pyramid.

- Proficiency with AI development tooling and a clear understanding of how to use AI to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality.

- Strong debugging skills across distributed systems.

- Basic understanding of financial services or capital markets.

- Effective collaboration and the ability to communicate technical decisions to non-technical audiences.

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

**Location:** Bengaluru (Hybrid, 3 days/week in office)

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- C#
- Python
- SQL
- OpenAPI
- AWS
- Terraform
- GitLab
- Agentic AI tooling

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