Senior Software Engineer – Foreign Exchange recruitment
The Company:
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.
The Role:
The Foreign Exchange (FX) team at Bloomberg develops software to support thecore pricing and analysis of currency data on the system. Since all of financial instruments rely on currencies, it's vital that the applications and infrastructure for the currency system are very robust, with high accuracy and availability. Functionality owned by the FX team range from trading strategy backtesting, to realtime high-volume pricing, to innovative price discovery tools.
The ideal candidate will be someone who is comfortable working on all different levels of an application, whether it's architecting the back end data model or helping to design an intuitive user interface. Software developers at Bloomberg are responsible for every step in the project life cycle, so a proven track record in taking a project from initial vision through to production deployment is a must.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years C/C++ development experience
- High comfort level using *nix operating systems
- Experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential
- Good database design knowledge.
- Experience with Oracle a plus
Bloomberg is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by law.
