Senior Software Engineer - Portfolio Analytics, Front-End (FA - Financial Analytics)

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New York, NY

Posted Apr 13, 2022 - Requisition No. 92686

Bloomberg Portfolio Analytics (or PORT) empowers the most prominent players in the financial world to manage their portfolios, assess exposures, and make decisions that move the financial markets. Our flagship product on the Bloomberg Professional service is a critical tool used daily by money managers, mutual funds, hedge funds, and pension funds around the world.

Each of the application teams that we are currently hiring for in PORT comes with exciting and complex challenges to solve.

1. PORT Interactive Analytics - Responsible for the front end framework within the PORT stack. We provide the means for gathering, assembling and visually representing the full suite of PORT analytics within the Bloomberg terminal. We integrate with various other internal teams to allow clients to seamlessly manage their portfolios, run reports, and consume data.

2. HPA Interactive - One of the main features within PORT is Performance Attribution. The goal of performance attribution is to explain to our clients WHY their portfolio has outperformed or underperformed against a benchmark. This flexible system employs multiple different models and strategies to provide our clients with various breakdowns of data with the ultimate goal of providing  invaluable insight into what is driving the performance of their portfolios. Our team focuses on providing the best UI experience to the sophisticated users of Portfolio Performance Attribution analytics.

Who are you?

A developer with interest in scalable architectures and who enjoys working closely with business and clients, and loves the challenge of transforming the current system!

We’ll trust you to:

  • Take ownership of the full development cycle and collaborate with the team on design and implementation
  • Partner with clients and other developers to design, build and roll-out solutions that will optimize client workflows
  • Explore new technologies both within and outside of Bloomberg to determine if they can help make our products run faster, increase stability, etc.
  • Embrace working together as a team – mentoring and learning from their existing teammates to break knowledge silos and ensure that our team is producing reliable, well documented and well understood products for our clients

You will need to have:

  • 3+ years of experience in Javascript, Typescript or any other Web Design languages.
  • 3+ years of experience covering the full software development life cycle
  • Interest in working in a client facing application team
  • Pragmatic problem-solving skills
  • This position requires at least one of the following: 

  • a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, and/or
  • an equivalent combination of education, and/or
  • specialized training, and/or
  • related professional experience
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We'd love to see:

Interest in identifying and building intuitive client workflows
Enthusiasm for building cutting edge systems
Experience in end-to-end software engineering project management

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, but the general framework can be found here: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/engineering-experienced-hire-application-process/

 

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.

Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for the recruitment process. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email amer_recruit@bloomberg.net

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