Senior Software Engineer - Auction Systems & Orderbook
Location
London
Business Area
Engineering and CTO
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Description & Requirements
Every day, trillions of dollars pass through the Bloomberg Terminal. As a result, hundreds of thousands of financial professionals rely on our enterprise applications to manage their portfolios, execute their trades and analyse the markets.
We are the engineering team behind the world's largest over-the-counter (OTC) electronic trading (ET) platform encompassing Fixed Income securities, Derivatives and Equities. Our platform provides end-to-end solutions across the trading life cycle so traders can connect more successfully to the global trading markets — all in one place.
We are the team behind Bloomberg Auction System, a world leading platform for Government monetary operations such as issuing Government debt, performing quantitative easing (QE), conducting short-term lending, and carrying out currency interventions. Our customer base extends to over 40 countries, including the UK DMO, Angola, Philippines and Peru.
We'll trust you to:
* Work on client-facing products
* Own the full development process – from gathering requirements to testing, rollouts, and maintenance
* Build high performance systems
Learn and influence how the financial markets operate by working closely with product managers and clients
You'll need to have:
* Experience working with C++ along with Python, Typescript or similar programming languages
* A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
* Experience building robust, scalable production systems and working with multithreaded applications
Prior contributions to system design and architecture and scaling fault-tolerant, distributed systems
We'd love to see:
* Familiarity with developer productivity tools such as Jenkins, Grafana and Humio
* Experience building multi-threaded applications
* Experience working in a UNIX or Linux development environment
* Knowledge of messaging queues such as Kafka