Senior Software Engineer - Risk and Performance Platform

Overview

Every day, trillions of dollars pass through the Bloomberg Terminal. As a result, hundreds of thousands of financial professionals rely on our enterprise applications to manage their portfolios, execute their trades and analyze the markets. Bloomberg Engineers 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 Market Risk team within the Risk and Performance Platform group is currently at the forefront of Bloomberg’s Risk offering. Our team builds Risk solutions for both buy-side and sell-side enterprise clients in the Terminal and programmatic APIs. We employ a wide range of technologies to help us manage our distributed calculation farm that handles billions of computations daily. We continue to expand our offering specifically in the risk domain, to support a wide range of technological and product requirements.

Some of our recent work includes the speed up of VaR calculations and horizontal scaling of our calculation farms.

New York

Engineering and CTO

Every day, trillions of dollars pass through the Bloomberg Terminal. As a result, hundreds of thousands of financial professionals rely on our enterprise applications to manage their portfolios, execute their trades and analyze the markets. Bloomberg Engineers 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.

• Work directly with product owners to build products that our clients use to tackle complex problems
• Take ownership of technical solutions, development and delivery to production
• Develop in all levels of an application stack, from the client to server side
• Be open to learning and using any language needed for the role (mainly C++)

• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience.
• Hands-on experience in developing risk solutions using C++ (or other object oriented language)
• 7 years of experience building software applications for the Fintech domain
• Deep understanding of the Risk domain and regulations with emphasis on Market Risk (full valuation Value at Risk, term structure risk, historical and predictive stress test scenarios)
• Deep knowledge of market risk factors and how they impact security valuations
• Good understanding of cross assets pricing and valuation
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across different stakeholders

• Design experience in distributed systems
• Experience in harnessing approximation methodologies to increase scalability
• Experience in clients’ facing API development using Rest
• Experience in producing technical requirements for financial products

Salary Range = 160000 - 240000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

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.

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