# Senior Engineer - LMEsmart

**Company**: London Metal Exchange (LME)
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join our team, focusing on engineering resilient Inter-Office integrations and workflows for our LMEsmart platform.

The successful candidate will develop automation of test tooling and framework development for the Inter-Office Trading platform, onboard vendor tools, analyze requirements, develop, deploy, and document solutions.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute automated test suites with actionable MI/reporting

- Refine a robust automation foundation that improves efficiency and delivery

- Communicate key insights to IT and Business stakeholders

- Manage relevant test environments

Requirements:

- Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related disciplines

- 5+ years of experience in software development with Java (JVM)

- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructures

- Knowledge of off-heap data structures, JVM-based optimization, and distributed systems

- Experience with data streaming (e.g., Kafka) and big-data processing paradigms

- Working knowledge of DevOps principles and secure software development (DevSecOps)

Nice to have:

- UI development using React.js

- Scripting languages, preferably Python

- NoSQL or distributed databases (e.g., Redis, Couchbase)

- Automation/configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Core competencies:

- Highly proficient in Java

- Understanding of containers and Kubernetes

- Ability to scale applications to handle high-frequency market data

- Excellent communication and decision-making skills

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- cloud infrastructures
- off-heap data structures
- JVM-based optimization
- distributed systems
- data streaming
- big-data processing
- DevOps principles
- secure software development

### Nice to have
- React.js
- Python
- NoSQL databases
- automation/configuration management
- containerization and orchestration

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