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Trading, Analytics and Execution Engineer (C++)
Bloomberg
London, , United Kingdom
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Every day, trillions of dollars pass through the Bloomberg Terminal. As a result, hundreds of thousands of financial professionals rely on our 500 enterprise applications to manage their portfolios, execute their trades and analyse the markets.
As engineers, we're the ones who build the applications our clients rely on to not just stay informed, but stay ahead of the market. We connect supply and demand across all asset classes on worldwide exchanges. The applications and infrastructure we build embody the speed, agility and financial data that make Bloomberg the go-to for financial professionals across the globe.
You'll have the opportunity to learn about the financial markets and take ownership of the growth our industry-leading applications. You'll lead projects, partner with the business and meet clients to understand their workflows. Our opportunities cover all phases of the software development lifecycle, providing a chance to make an immediate impact and work on the financial world's toughest technical challenges. We're looking for passionate engineers who want to help us take our products to the next level.
We'll trust you to:
• Take responsibility for the full software development life-cycle, from understanding the needs of the business through to coding to deployment and maintenance. Your work will be highly visible, making you highly accountable
• Enjoy solving highly complex problems while understanding the scope and impact of your work
• Be quick, resourceful, flexible, and an excellent collaborator. You will balance the best of technical and product knowledge to craft unsurpassed product solutions for our customers
• Engage with the wider community. You might love to work with open source software. We interact with the open source communities by contributing changes where we can. You will also be able to take part in related meet-ups and conferences
You'll need to have:
• Strong experience with C++ and other object-oriented programming languages such as C# or Java
• An aptitude for analytical problem solving
• Exposure to all phases of the Software development lifecycle
We'd love to see:
• Experience with multithreading
• Familiarity with SQL, Python and JavaScript
• Experience with high volume, high availability distributed systems
• An interest in the financial markets
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In the AIM Trade Manager team, you will be responsible for replacing our entire legacy trade processing infrastructure with a new centralized engine. You will be working in C++11 and leveraging a variety of open source technologies. You will tackle age-old distributed systems problems, balancing latency and throughput with reliability at scale. Additionally as we are the only truly cross-asset-class platform you will be exposed to a breadth of functionality and interesting domain modelling problems.
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We need engineers that can meet the demands of developing a global trading platform that processes billions of dollars a day and want to develop low latency, highly scalable resilient solutions and thrive in an agile-team environment.
You will be involved in all stages of the development life cycle from deciding the right the solution to releasing the code.
Our engineers are split between London and New York and we have end-to-end responsibility of the FX workflow from the client's user interface, to distributed low-latency backend systems and external connectivity to the banks.
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Our key challenges are scaling, high availability and speed. We build complete solutions, all the way from powerful, distributed backends and databases to data intensive, live, user interfaces. Over a hundred thousand people will use the high-impact functionality that we build every single day. What you produce will make a significant difference to their daily workflow.
Our core values are openness, innovation and collaboration.
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SSEOMS is at the action centre of equity markets, and we're looking for strong engineers who have a passion for learning new technologies and financial concepts, and appreciate the excitement of integrating them together. If you're a motivated, energetic, and tenacious engineer with strong communication and problem solving skills, we would love to talk to you.
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We are extremely proud of our diverse and open culture, and value diversity of thought and perspective in every form. We're looking for engineers with a passion for writing reusable, efficient solutions to complex problems, who can adapt to an ever-changing market landscape, and who can collaborate and work effectively on small teams to develop software that impacts thousands of power users around the world. If this sounds like you, please apply below!
To find out more about Engineering at Bloomberg, check out www.bloomberg.com/careers/technology/engineering/.