Intern - Software Engineer

About this role

Programme starts: June 2027

Duration: 12 Weeks

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Our Software Engineer Summer Internship has been crafted so that you can understand what a career in the Post Trade Solutions (PTS) engineering team at LSEG would really be like. In the internship you will work on projects solving real problems and work as part of a team with experienced engineers.

This position is within the Optimisation Core Technology Team, part of the Post Trade Engineering division based in New York office.

To be eligible, you should be in the penultimate year of your undergraduate or final year of an Undergraduate degree and plan to continue onto Masters for academic year 2027/28 studying Computer Science, Engineering, or any other relevant tech field.

Internship Summary

The Core Technology team creates the systems that deliver the optimisation services to clients. It is this team’s responsibility to design and build systems that permit financial market participants to securely provide risk and trade data to the company, to deliver that data to the optimisation services developed by the financial engineers, and to return the output of those computations safely back to the participants in a timely manner. In addition, the systems should provide feedback to the clients to help them understand the results as well as how they can modify their parameters and data to gain improvements in the future. Our systems live in the cloud, hosted by AWS, and leverage lambdas, EC2, RDS, and Redshift.

The successful candidate will work as part of a team of 5-10 engineers to build and research improvements to the applications & environment. They will work directly with the Product Development team to enhance the services based on feedback from clients and analysis of runs as well as on strategic projects.

Examples of possible projects, which involve writing software in python, include:

• Designing and building a new wor...