Senior Software Engineer, C++

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

full-time

Posted on: 10/16/2025

Location Type: Office

Location: Colombo • 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

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About the role

Develop high-quality software, design, and functional documentation
Work with product owners, architects and others to implement world-class solutions that meet regulatory and customer needs.
Provide estimates for specific software feature implementation
Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle (SDLC)
Build unit tests for your code and follow test-driven development processes.
Develop and maintain tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code that follows open sourcing standards
Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
Provide senior leadership to junior software developers by leading design, implementation and code reviews.
Participate in the backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions, analysing requirements, providing complexity estimates and proposing low-level implementation plans.
Collaborate with a global group of internal teams that span Asia, Europe and Americas.
Ensure software is up-to-date with latest technologies and standards
Assist front-line support teams in resolving customer and production issues.

5+ years of full life-cycle software development experience
3+ years of object oriented development in C++
Ability to collaborate in a team focused environment
Excellent analytical skills and a real passion for solving problems.
Ability to thoroughly test and debug code using test driven development
Ability to suggest/research new technologies and quickly adapt to change
Ability to work with both Technical Architects and Product Owners in order to build to specification
Very good working experience as HT basic and Delphi software developer.
Fair working knowledge on SQL DB
Working experience in different cloud environments
Very good working experience in different scripting (Powershell, Bash)
Source Repositories (GIT) and associated pipeline development (Jenkins/Gitlab).
Familiarity with network programming and/or functionality - TCP/IP, UDP multicast, REST, Web-sockets are all desirable.
Working experience and developing software on both Linux and Windows operating systems
Agile development experience is strong plus
Good working knowledge on SNOW, Jira and Confluence tools.
Strong understanding of infrastructure and very good problem solving skills.
Outstanding analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Self-driven, flexible, and innovative.
Fair understanding of Incident, Problem, Change and Release management processes.

Benefits

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