Senior Software Engineer - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We sit at the intersection of finance and technology, working directly with product managers, financial engineers, and quantitative analysts to understand client and market needs.

These foundational systems get billions of hits per day and provide data andanalytics to many of Bloomberg's flagship products.

We provide value to Bloomberg internal & external customers by delivering systems that enable structuring, pricing, and analytics for derivative financial products.

We take pride in solving a wide variety of challenges associated with pricing derivatives includingcreating efficient market data management pipelines, integrating state of the art mathematical pricing models, designing rich APIs and user interfaces and solving complex distributed systems challenges.

If you're interested, see the following links for more about the Bloomberg Derivatives team.

What's in it for you?:

Be part of a passionate, growing community of talented software engineers within an environment where innovation is not only embraced, but encouraged
Implement microservices and componentbased designs using Docker container workflows for development and deployment to onpremise cloud infrastructure
Focus on developing a modular framework that provides users the capability to price any derivative payoff
The opportunity to learn some of the financial domain that's at the core of the extensive derivative functionality we design and develop, including an extensive training offering
Attend inhouse training courses designed by technology experts, participate in or speak at conferences, build your network by collaborating with leaders in a wide variety of technical fields and make an impact by participating in Bloomberg's EngineeringGuilds
You will have the opportunity to develop a great mix of design and technology skills and learn about the derivatives domain
Help to shape the strategy and experience of OCaml developers by contributing to the wider Bloomberg DevX community

We'll trust you to:

Employ functional programming in building new cuttingedge systems and improving existing ones wherever possible
Take leadership of technical solutions, implementation and rollout to users
Use industry best practices for testing, automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment
Champion new technologies, advocate for the latest developments and best practices in the open source community, challenge the status quo and inspire others to improve their craft
Represent Bloomberg in conferences and the wider functional programming community
Embrace teamwork and peer review of designs and code

You'll need to have:

Experience working with a functional language (OCaml, Haskell, Scala etc.)
A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
An understanding of the benefits of composition, search for sum types in any language you write and dearly miss pattern matching where you don't have it
Prior contributions to system design and architecture and scaling faulttolerant, distributed systems
Honest approach to problemsolving, and ability to collaborate with peers, stakeholders and management

We'd love to see:

It'll be great if you already have experience programming in OCaml or a related functional language
We value someone who has an interest in sharing knowledge and mentoring other team members
If you have a passion for working on large scale projects, you'll fit right in

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company.

We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin,race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence,or any other classification protected by applicable law.