Lead Software Engineer, Real Time Index Engineering(Java)

About the role

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the team building the Real Time Framework (RTF), our low-latency, cloud-native platform for calculating, managing and distributing FTSE Russell's real-time indices at global scale, spanning Equity, Fixed Income and Multi-Asset coverage. Reliability, security, and data quality are non-negotiable as we modernise the platform that underpins our entire real-time franchise.

What you'll do

• 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 (e.g. volatility-controlled, options/futures-based, long-short)

What you need

• 9–16 years in software engineering
• Java
• System design
• Git
• SQL
• AWS
• Python
• Any graduate

Good to have

• C#
• PostgreSQL
• Terraform
• Capital markets
• Data modelling
• CI/CD