Senior Software Engineer - News Engineering (Elasticsearch)

Senior Software Engineer — News Engineering @ LSEG

Help us shape the future of real‑time news delivery and join a team powering the heartbeat of global information! LSEG’s News Engineering group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help evolve our News platform, delivering enriched breaking news to customers worldwide in sub‑second time. If you're motivated by high‑performance systems, real‑world impact, and incorporating modern engineering practices in a dynamic and forward‑thinking environment — this is your opportunity. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive as individual contributors and can lead a scrum team. You’ll deepen your expertise in low‑latency, high‑throughput systems and have clear paths to expanding your career to technical leadership, architecture, reliability, or applied ML for news analytics.

As a senior software engineer in the News team at LSEG, you will build and evolve services, primarily in Java and Python, with a strong emphasis on performance, observability, and continuous improvement in a cloud‑native environment. We encourage pragmatic experimentation with new tools, libraries, and approaches when they improve reliability, performance, or developer experience.

Learn how structured data and News industry standards enable fast, reliable news delivery while simplifying problems for customers. Collaborate in a scrum team, crafting solutions and delivering new features. Own the design and delivery of critical services, from architecture decisions through to production support, with autonomy to influence technical direction. Help automate deployment, upgrades, and maintenance using modern DevOps techniques. Participate in a well‑structured on‑call rotation focused on sustainability, automation, and preventing repeat incidents — not heroics.

What We’re Looking For

• Solid experience with Java and Python on Linux and real‑time systems.
• Practical experience in using IP‑based protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, etc).
• Familiarity with unit testing and test‑driven development.
• Understanding of search technology such as Elasticsearch.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and communicate clearly.

• Bonus Points: Hands‑on experience with GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
• Experience with GitHub Copilot to aid in the engineering process.
• Knowledge of NewsMLG2 or similar standards and experience implementing a standard format at speed.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Your work helps deliver critical news to millions in real time.
• Growth: Learn from expert engineers and expand your skills across cloud, data, and resilient systems.
• Culture: We value curiosity over dogma, ownership over handoffs, and pragmatism over perfection. You’ll work in a globally distributed team that supports each other.
• Flexibility: Hybrid work options and a balanced work‑life environment.
• Career Stage: Senior Associate.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $113,900 - $189,900 (anticipated; may vary by geographic location, city and state).
• Eligible for our Annual Incentive Plan (AIP/"bonus plan"). Target AIP rates will be commensurate with role level and posted career stage. Individual salary will be reflective of job‑related knowledge, skills and equivalent experience.
• Benefits program includes: Annual Wellness Allowance, Paid time‑off, Medical, Dental, Vision, Flex Spending & Health Savings Options, Prescription Drug plan, 401(K) Savings Plan and Company match.
• Benefits plan also includes basic life insurance, disability benefits, emergency backup dependent care, adoption assistance, commuter assistance, etc.

Company Culture and Values

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider with a purpose of driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. We work with 25,000 people across 65 countries.

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.

We are committed to sustainability across our global business and partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. The LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence.

Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering. LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.