Bloomberg's Electronic Trading platforms across Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Equities, and Derivatives need to process millions of trades daily, providing clients with real-time insights, regulatory transparency, and post-trade analytics through scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications. The company is looking to build high-performance distributed systems that serve multiple trading workflows and products, design common frameworks and APIs that unify data exchange across applications and services, and drive initiatives that enhance scalability, resilience, and observability across the platform.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience developing software in C++ and Python
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant systems
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and agile development practices
- Proficiency with modern C++ (C++17 or later) in Linux environments
- Experience with streaming or messaging technologies, e.g., Kafka
- Knowledge of service-oriented or microservices architectures
Responsibilities
- Build high-performance distributed systems that serve multiple trading workflows and products
- Design common frameworks and APIs that unify data exchange across applications and services
- Drive initiatives that enhance scalability, resilience, and observability across the platform
- Partner with engineering and product teams across asset classes to deliver shared solutions that power new trading capabilities
- Design full-stack, distributed systems that handle high-volume, low-latency workflows while meeting the resiliency needs of global markets
- Providing clients with real-time insights, regulatory transparency, and post-trade analytics through scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications
- Providing the shared foundation that enables Bloomberg’s Electronic Trading platforms to evolve and scale efficiently
Other
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience
- The ability to collaborate across teams and influence technical direction in a large engineering organization
- A strong sense of ownership and commitment to delivering reliable, maintainable, and scalable solutions
- Gain a deeper understanding of how global financial markets operate by working closely with product managers and clients
- Curiosity about financial markets and how technology drives trade automation and transparency
