Trading, Analytics and Execution Developer (C++) Job

Recruiter
Bloomberg Careers
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Posted
18 Apr 2015
Closes
19 Apr 2015
Sectors
IT
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Requisition Number:44806
The Trading, Analytics, and Execution teams at Bloomberg develop technology that ensures that the global financial markets run smoothly. The applications and infrastructure built by our teams connect supply and demand, across all asset classes, on worldwide exchanges. Trillions of dollars of capital move through our systems daily; and as a result, market leaders rely on us to flawlessly and seamlessly manage their positions and execute their orders.
We help our clients navigate an increasingly complex business with best-in-class tools to manage risk and regulation. Using the latest technology in our enterprise analytic tools, we provide unique insights that enable our clients to make better investment decisions.
Qualifications:
We are looking for dedicated and driven software developers with strong technical and programming skills, excellent problem solving ability and appreciation for the scope and impact of their work.
- Strong C++ skills including STL
- Multi-threading
- Linux/UNIX experience
- Familiarity with SQL, Python, and Javascript is a plus
- Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle
- A passion for design, problem solving, and hands-on development
- A pragmatic and adaptable outlook
- Interest and/or experience in financial domains is desirable for a number of teams
Teams in Trading, Analytics and Execution:
Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) Trading Solutions
AIM is a large-scale, high-performance, distributed software system that is fully hosted and managed. AIM delivers unparalleled, multi-asset, hosted solutions for Order Management, Electronic Trading and Execution, Portfolio Management and Back Office activities. Derivatives are a growing area of focus for Bloomberg & the AIM business. The AIM Derivatives team is responsible for the maintenance and development of multiple existing applications covering Foreign Exchange (FX), Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) derivatives trading. Our software is also closely involved with global regulations and our customers rely on AIM to ensure their compliance with the complex and evolving regulatory landscape.
Enterprise Connectivity and Integration
The Enterprise Connectivity and Integration team moves data between Bloomberg's Enterprise products and client systems. Our user interface provides the user with a single place to configure and monitor all of their data traffic across the Bloomberg system. The data we transmit is critical to our clients' operations so our systems must be reliable, resilient and fast.
Equity Trader
The primary focus of the Equity Trader group is to provide real-time analytics based on market and order-related data to clients in the financial industry. We develop highly resilient and efficient applications to monitor, enrich and display market activity as well as order flow. These services are performance sensitive and at peak capacity process hundreds of thousands of orders or trades in a single second. We architect solutions to distribute and integrate our data in several client-facing applications that are part of the Bloomberg Terminal and leverage these services within non-terminal enterprise products. Our role also involves building compelling and interactive user interfaces to expose our data and help build an intuitive workflow. As a result our products are business critical for thousands of clients who access them millions of times a day.
Fixed Income Electronic Trading (FIT)
The FIT team has a strong foothold in the fixed income space with over 90% market share in asset classes such as Credit Default Swaps and Interest Rate Swaps. This is an exciting time to join the team as we look to increase our product offering, while consolidating the considerable gains made in the changing and challenging trading environments. Projects will include building new trading platforms and enhancements to our existing offering. Our team members are involved in all aspects from product design to release, working on a mix of ticketing, server infrastructure and connectivity.
Foreign Exchange Electronic Trading (FXGO)
With over $5 trillion traded every day, the FX market is the world's largest market, and we are building our Bloomberg FXGO Trading Platform to be a premier multi-counterparty platform. You will be part of a rapidly growing team and immediately responsible for key new projects and initiatives. Our team owns various parts of the Bloomberg FX Trading Platform, which includes a 24 hour low latency multi-bank streaming trade application, post trade delivery system, confirmation and settlement centre and integrations with sell-side and buy-side clients.
Institutional Sales
The Institutional Sales Applications group develops multi-asset applications for Sales, Traders and Research Sales professionals. Our goal is to provide tools that empower salespeople and their managers to provide world-class service to their institutional clients. These tools leverage sophisticated algorithms to present simple answers to common questions that a salesperson faces throughout the day. Successful members of the team have a strong interest in finding solutions that manage and distill large volumes of disparate data to produce clear and powerful insights, and they are excited by the prospect of working in this important and rapidly evolving business.
Portfolio and Risk Analytics
The Portfolio and Risk Analytics team develops applications that provide transparency and insight to asset managers and analysts, empowering them to make smart financial decisions. The team develops an integrated access layer to multi-asset risk, return attribution, characteristics, intra-day P&L; monitoring and portfolio optimization. Our London team focuses on delivering a comprehensive, high-throughput, distributed access layer that provides complex, multi-dimensional portfolio and risk analytics to various on-screen applications, professional reporting platforms, data visualization workflows, alerts, and others. We offer ample opportunity to contribute towards the design and implementation of core portfolio technologies as well as financial products.
Sell Side Equity Order Management Systems (SSEOMS)
SSEOMS is becoming a global enterprise-wide order management system. We are a fast growing business within Bloomberg, and on our way to becoming the leader in the industry. Developers will gain valuable equity trading and order management expertise in a very fast paced, real-time, mission critical environment. We are developing low-latency, high capacity sub-systems that handle orders, trades, risk, position, commissions, middle office, compliance and connectivity to the major exchanges around the globe.
Trade Order Management (TOMS & ETOMS) Trading Solutions
The TOMS product is used by financial professionals all over the world to support their trading, offering, pricing, risk and portfolio management needs. Our London TOMS team is responsible for the ever-growing Foreign Exchange functionality within the product. This involves connecting to other internal systems as well as building low-latency, high-volume processing systems to manage the large portfolios that our clients maintain. TOMS delivers a global, multi-asset, solution for trade capture, inventory management, and middle office operations. Our team provides powerful tools that allow traders to manage positions, make markets, and manage their risk and P&L;, all in a streamlined, customized straight-through-processing workflow.
ETOMS is an industry-leading, multi-asset class electronic workflow solution for the sell-side community. The team develops low-latency connectivity solutions to European exchanges, as well as trading tools and workflows.
Tradebook
Bloomberg Tradebook is a leading agency broker, a US Electronic Communication Network, and a technology provider of a cross-asset electronic trading platform, supporting Equities, Futures, Options and FX trading.
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