Lead Engineer, AI Platforms

Company: London Stock Exchange Group
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As Lead Engineer you will drive the development of secure, scalable backend and frontend systems while shaping engineering best practices. You will combine hands-on delivery with technical leadership, guiding architecture, solution implementation, and workflow improvement. You will embed AI capabilities into production systems and mentor a cross-functional team to deliver high-quality, trusted digital products. This is a high-impact role at a global, innovation-driven firm that values collaboration and continuous improvement.

Pay / Benefits

  • healthcare
  • retirement planning
  • paid volunteering days
  • wellbeing initiatives

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of secure, scalable backend and frontend systems
  • Define architectural direction, coding standards, and development best practices
  • Collaborate with product, design, and cross-functional teams to plan and deliver features
  • Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and guide technical decision-making
  • Improve deployment, monitoring, and operational processes
  • Lead integration of AI capabilities, including model deployment and performance monitoring

Key requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with technical leadership
  • Expertise in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and MongoDB
  • Experience with ReactJS, JavaScript, and TypeScript
  • Strong secure coding knowledge (OWASP principles)
  • Experience with CI/CD, Git workflows, automated testing
  • Experience leading AI feature development or integrating ML models into production systems
  • mentoring
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • strong technical judgement
  • Java/Kotlin
  • Spring Boot
  • REST APIs

Posted: September 14th, 2026