Senior Software Engineer - Charts

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New York, NY

Posted Jun 8, 2020 - Requisition No. 79593

The Bloomberg Charts product is used by over 200,000 financial professionals worldwide to make financial decisions. Our next-generation Charts unlock market data and give our clients unprecedented advantages. Today's Charts product spans a wide gamut of functionality, from visualizing data on the screen to real-time data alerting to historical trend analysis and much more. Charts group provides an immensely popular platform for visual and quantitative analysis of data sets through a host of Bloomberg Applications, widgets and mission critical services. The services cater to a broad spectrum of terminal and enterprise users with more than 60+ million daily hits and we're looking for new members to work on some of our most exciting and challenging projects.

What we do:

Charts Group is responsible for design, development, improvements and maintenance of a wide gamut of Charting and Analytical applications and back end services. We develop in a fast paced agile environment. With a lot of interaction with product managers and various other team within Bloomberg. The team uses various front end and back end technologies. Front end is developed using JavaScript, Typescript and integrated with Bloomberg terminal. Most of the backend services run on Linux and developed using C++, .Net Core, Python, etc. 

Some examples of functionality we develop include real time Charting applications, ability to create and update charts using NLP, Charting on Bloomberg application on Mobile devices, creation and live updates of custom indexes, Back Testing and Alerting on various trading strategies based on technical analysis and many more

The real-time nature of the infrastructure we have makes it capable of monitoring live data to alert on market movements. It also allows integration with applications like automated news. We are currently looking to further improve and expand our functionality to help users to better discover, analyze and visualize data on the Bloomberg terminal utilizing some of the newest technologies. 

We’ll trust you to:

  • Be a key contributor to the charting product development. This includes the next generation state of the art Bloomberg Charting platform.
  • Innovate solutions for complex technical problems
  • Leverage your technical expertise to architect and implement critical services
  • Work collaboratively within the team and across groups to deliver products that broaden and improve our offering to customers
  • Mentor others and chip in to the growth of the team

You'll need to have:

  • 5+ years programming experience in object oriented programming languages (C++ is a plus, but not required)
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
  • Deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
  • Ability to learn quickly

We'd love to see:

  • Experience with distributed systems and high load multi-threaded services 
  • Experience with JavaScript or Typescript development
  • Experience working in an agile environment

If this sounds like something you would be passionate about apply!  We’ll get in touch with you to let you know what the next steps are.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
 

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