Senior Software Engineer - Database Systems

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New York, NY

Posted May 10, 2019 - Requisition No. 75057

The TMS (Transaction Management System) team is an integral part of Bloomberg’s enterprise Trading and Order Management Systems delivering front-office inventory, portfolio, sales and trading, and middle and back office solutions to both the Buy and Sell-Side financial community. Our clients are some of the largest financial institutions in the world who need a reliable platform to run their trading operations.

In TMS we are on a mission to provide a scalable Enterprise Trading Platform across multiple markets for greater transparency of business transaction events and enhanced analytical capability bringing transparency to position, P&L and trade life-cycle events.

What's in it for you:

  • Developing construct, test and maintain architectures for OLTP databases and large scale data processing systems
  • Working in a highly collaborative environment that allows you to recommend and implement ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality
  • An opportunity to understand business use cases and collaborate with application teams to write efficient DB queries to meet SLO

We'll trust you to:

  • Ensure that the architecture that is in place supports the requirements of the business.
  • Develop data set processes for data modeling, mining, and production.
  • Run ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) on top of big datasets and create big data warehouses that can be used for reporting or analysis
  • Have extensive knowledge on SQL/NoSQL databases and best engineering practices. These include:
  • Handling and logging errors, monitoring the system
  • Building human-fault-tolerant data pipelines
  • Understanding what is necessary to scale up
  • Addressing continuous integration
  • Knowledge of database administration
  • Maintaining data cleaning, and ensuring a deterministic pipeline.

You'll need to have:

  • 5+ years experience developing low-latency SQL queries and stored procedures
  • 5+ years experience working on high volume OLTP systems in Postgres or Oracle
  • Working knowledge of scripting languages such as Shell, Python
  • Expertise in SQL performance tuning
  • Strong problem solving skills

We'd love to see:

  • Data modeling or DBA experience
  • Finance domain knowledge

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