Bloomberg Portfolio Analytics (PORT) empowers the most prominent players in the financial world to manage their investment portfolios, analysing hundreds of indicators on millions of data points, to ultimately make decisions that move the markets.

We partner with both clients and engineers across the globe (New York, London, San Francisco, and Singapore) to refine requirements and provide suitable data models. We collaborate on challenging problems like creating a scalable framework for performing advanced mathematical calculations, dynamically fetching and transforming data-cubes with hundreds of gigabytes of data in real-time, automatically validating close to 100 billion data points every night and providing an API to over 200 different applications made available to our clients.

Our system is based on multithreaded C++ core services, a sophisticated orchestration framework, and a mix of Bloomberg and open-source technologies such as Jupyter notebooks, Apache Spark, Arrow, Kafka and Cassandra. As owners of a critical system, we use monitoring technologies such as Splunk, GUTS, Grafana as well as python based data science analytics to validate our numbers.

Our team follows Agile-methodologies, and we are working on fully implementing a continuous integration and delivery process.

Who are you?

We are starting a large redesign effort to transition one of our core systems from a monolithic architecture to a highly-scalable microservice distributed architecture. If you are motivated to help us complete this highly creative and collaborative effort, you are the right person for this role!

The Lugano office

Our office is home to 50 engineers from 12 different nationalities. In addition to our main job, we get involved in things like driving new cross-office initiatives from Lugano, travelling to other offices to give Tech talks, or making an impact to our Diversity & Inclusion in Tech efforts!

In your role we'll trust you to:

• Feel empowered to take ownership of the full development cycle
• Collaborate with clients and other developers to design, build and roll-out solutions that will optimize complex workflows
• Explore new technologies both within and outside of Bloomberg to see if any of them can help make our products run faster, increase stability, etc.
• Embrace working together as a team – mentoring and learning from your existing teammates to break knowledge silos and ensure that our team is producing reliable, well documented and well-understood products for our clients.

You'll need to have:

• Programming experience in C, C++, C#, Java or Python
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• A good understanding of the systems you worked on
• Problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of data structures and understanding of algorithms

Interview process:

We believe interviewing is a two way street. It's a way for us to get to know you and your skills, and also a way for you to learn more about the team, our technical challenges, and what you'd be working on. The content of each interview round will be tailored to the role and your background.

We want to ensure you can put your best foot forward throughout the process, so if you have any questions or need any accommodations to be successful, please let us know!

Employment with Bloomberg is conditional on providing and maintaining a work permit for Switzerland

We have a lot of opportunities to choose from in Engineering, and it is important to us that your skills and experience align best with the team you are interviewing with. To help ensure you are placed on the right team, your application will be considered for all of our current vacancies in Engineering at the first stage of the interview process.