Senior Software Engineer - BVAL
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
12-03-2025
Job Specifications
BVAL is a premium enterprise product that uses sophisticated quantitative models to price fixed-income instruments and provides premium curves to enhance risk management workflows for our clients. We support critical valuation functions at large asset managers, sell side banks and index consumers, which requires us to write high performance algorithms and infrastructure that can price 2.5 million securities in a span of 15 minutes. BVAL is the pricing source of choice for many clients and Bloomberg products such as Portfolio Analytics, Trading Systems and Index.
Our team in London is responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure to price, manage and distribute thousands of Curves constructed from millions of bonds, using different methodologies and quant algorithms. This is a great opportunity to join our team at an exciting time as we work on expanding the team and take on more ownership of exciting projects to help business achieve its ambitious goals. For those looking for a challenge, it is a great chance to help the team in its ongoing effort to re-engineer our systems to turn it into a highly available resilient distributed system, using the latest technologies like Kafka, Redis, React etc.
We'll Trust You To
Take responsibility for the full software development life-cycle, from understanding the needs of the business through to coding to deployment and maintenance.
Your work will be highly visible, making you highly accountable
Solve complex software design and optimization problems while understanding the scope and impact of your work
Be quick, resourceful, flexible, and an excellent collaborator. You will balance the best of technical and product knowledge to craft unsurpassed product solutions for our customers
Partner with multiple teams within and outside of BVAL including a team of market experts and quantitative analysts. You should be able to explain technical concepts to our non-technical partners while managing their expectations
You’ll Need To Have
Experience working with high availability distributed systems
Deep understanding of object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
Proficiency in Python or C++
Experience in automated testing using Docker
Exposure to all phases of the SDLC
Solid communication skills
Positive attitude and collaborative spirit
About the Company
Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration. Know more
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