Senior Software Engineer Market Oversight

Senior Software Engineer - Market Oversight Location Frankfurt Business Area Engineering and CTO Ref #

Description & Requirements

Bloomberg is expanding its footprint in the global financial market space through the creation of electronic fixed income trading venues. Electronic trading venues are heavily regulated by local authority so Bloomberg is making every effort to conform to their mandates.
The Market Oversight team plays a vital role verifying that those obligations are met. We are located in Frankfurt and working closely with internal clients such as Operational Risk and Compliance.
The team is working on three different areas:

1. -Our first pillar is a data analytics platform to provide reconciliation tools to our risk teams. The tools are a suite of comprehensive suites detecting errors in reporting and providing investigation and operational workflows.
2. Our second pillar is a platform to conduct trade surveillance to our venue compliance teams.
3. The third pillar covers reporting of instrument reference data.

Whats in it for you

• You will be part of a growing enterprise product and help to create new electronic trading venues and enable our clients to trade more financial products on those venues.
• You will gain a unique insight into our trading systems as the tools from our team look at the venues from outside pulling data from various endpoints to verify we are meeting our regulatory obligations.
• We are working with a modern technology stack and are always looking to improve our software quality and efficiency.
• Opportunities to make a real difference to our products and engineering group.

Well trust you to:

• Collaborate with Engineering teams in both London and New York to solve complex technical problems
• Work closely with members of your immediate team to maintain the codebase to a consistently high standard
• Liaise with different product managers to convert customer requirements into a software design and deliver software features to agreed timescales
• Manage the full SDLC for your software including production releases

Youll need to have:

• Experience in C Python or Java with an ambition for improving and maintaining critical functions and APIs
• A Degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• An eagerness to understand the trading workflow and how our systems interact to ensure we are meeting our regulatory obligations
• A passion for the quality and correctness of your work and eagerness to improve and automate more of our workflows
• Appreciation for the quality of the code base and experience in knowing how to apply unit testing integration testing and stress testing to produce reliable production software
• A pragmatic mindset with the ability to balance technology demands with business requirements
• An interest in solving challenging problems in a collaborative environment

Wed love to see:

• Experience building robust scalable production systems and working with multithreaded applications.
• A strong sense of ownership
• An interest in the financial markets
• Experience working with a distributed system and an understanding of its unique challenges
• An interest in staying up to date with trends in the industry

Our culture:
Were proud of our culture and collaboration sits at the centre of how we operate youll collaborate across teams and locations on a global scale both virtually and in person.

• Engineers at Bloomberg actively shape the direction of our technology and products helping drive innovation.
• Frankfurt is one of 11 engineering hubs at Bloomberg since being established in 2014 Frankfurt has enjoyed consistent growth now with 140 employees and 70 in engineering the office has become an integral part of Bloombergs global tech communities and initiatives.
• Since 2021 weve been employing a hybrid work model which gives our engineers flexibility but also allows us to collaborate across teams.
• Were big advocates of getting together and sharing ideas we hold regular internal and external tech social and philanthropic events to strengthen our relationships with the local community.
• Our Frankfurt office is in the heart of the city its also newly refurbished so for the days that youre in the office you can enjoy brand-new facilities which include a fully stocked pantry serving breakfasts and lunches.

Alongside a great culture we also offer Frankfurt employees a comprehensive list of benefits which include:

• 100% coverage on health insurance costs for employees and eligible family members
• 30 days holiday per year
• Endless opportunities to participate in philanthropic events and charity days
• Sponsorship for continuous education and professional development
• Sponsorship to attend external events and global conferences

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1