What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Functional Integration position at Bloomberg L.P.?
We are a team of technologists that provides Functional Integration solutions as a product to our clients across various financial institutions, as well as software infrastructure within Bloomberg. Our team is part of the Enterprise Products Platform (EPP) group, with a special domain focus on facilitating machine-to-machine interaction between our clients’ systems and the products Bloomberg offers. Our clients are primarily financial institutions in the capital markets, and the Bloomberg products they typically use include market data, trading systems, portfolio solutions, and risk analytics.
Functional Integration solutions are among the most commonly used software offerings in EPP, as they serve as the primary systems for transferring bulk data files between our clients’ applications and Bloomberg analytics. The files processed by these systems contain business-critical financial data such as clients’ positions, transactions, private securities, and pricing information. The number of files handled daily is very large and growing rapidly. Therefore, one of the main goals of the engineering team is to provide stable and scalable backend systems leveraging cloud-based object storage, distributed systems, and microservice architecture. There is also a strong focus on full-stack development so that we can provide sophisticated user interfaces to our customers, as well as web-based tooling for the Bloomberg Enterprise Service team to support clients’ complex workflows involving data mapping, data enrichment and overrides, encryption, and decryption.
Our technologies
We develop our software using a combination of open-source, third-party, and in-house technologies. As engineers, we strive to balance selecting the best technology for a problem with managing the risks of using exploratory technologies. Some of the problem domains we regularly encounter are:
- Distributed systems
- Bulk data processing
- User interface development
- Service-oriented architecture
Some of the specific technologies we use today include Python, C++, React, and PostgreSQL.
Our values
- Technical Excellence: Strive for the highest standards in the quality of our work, whether in design, development, support, or testing.
- Customer Focus: Ensuring a consistent and high-quality experience for our customers is essential.
- Ownership: Take on a problem and own the solution from start to finish; our success comes from the actions we take.
- Collaboration: The best designs are created when we work together.
- Open-Mindedness: We believe in always being open to new ideas and learning.
How we work
We are a self-organizing and collaborative team with a high degree of influence over our project roadmap, and you’ll benefit from working closely with other experienced engineers and product counterparts. We work in two-week sprints and plan our projects in six-sprint product increments.
What is the role?
As a senior engineer on the team, you are expected to understand the problems faced by our stakeholders and customers; collaborate with teammates and business partners to develop requirements; and turn those requirements into high-quality technical solutions. Beyond this core aspect of the role, we also expect senior engineers to be mentors, helping to hire, develop, and support other engineers on the team. Bloomberg has a broad engineering organization with many communities and guilds where engineers can learn, share ideas, and help make important decisions about how Bloomberg moves forward technically and culturally.
Who are we looking for?
The Functional Integration engineering team is hiring highly motivated and driven senior full-stack software engineers with the following qualifications:
You'll need to have:
- 4+ years of experience working with an object-oriented programming language such as C/C++, Python, or Java
- Development experience on Linux or UNIX operating systems
- Experience with object-oriented programming
- Experience with relational databases
- Expertise in data structures and algorithms
- Experience with distributed systems
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a similar field of study, or equivalent work experience
We'd love to see:
- Development experience with Python, JavaScript, and C++
- Familiarity with and experience using the React front-end framework
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies
We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.