Senior Software Engineer - TRAX Platforms

Bloomberg L.P.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their TRAX Platforms team in London. You will build high-performance systems and collaborate across teams to deliver innovative trading solutions. Ideal candidates will have experience in C++ and distributed systems. Bloomberg values diversity and offers a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Collaborative work environment

Opportunities for career growth

Support for diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building enterprise applications in C++.
• Experience designing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
• A sharp eye for quality.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance, highly reliable distributed systems.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
• Drive design discussions and deliver exceptional results.

Skills

C++

TypeScript

Distributed systems

High-throughput messaging

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - TRAX Platforms

Location

London

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Ref #

10044546

Description & Requirements

TRAX Platforms is responsible for modeling, transforming, and delivering trading data to Bloomberg’s largest trading solutions and their customers. We process tens of millions of trading events every day in real time, ensuring that our clients can continue trading seamlessly in financial markets around the world.

Our software powers essential parts of the trading workflow, such as cross-asset blotters and trading automation engines, making it a vital component of the trading ecosystem. Our goal is to enable product teams across Bloomberg to deliver powerful trading solutions, at scale.

Our environment is defined by rapidly growing volumes and complexity of trading data, and our systems must continuously scale to meet these demands. As a mission critical platform, quality and reliability are at the core of everything we do. We have high quality standards, continuously invest in the observability of our platform and closely collaborate with our SRE teams.

What We’re Looking For

We have several positions across multiple teams and we’re seeking both experienced backend and full stack engineers, with strong C++ skills. Additional TypeScript experience is appreciated. You’ll have the opportunity to drive design discussions, and collaborate closely with engineering and product partners to deliver exceptional results. If you’re passionate about building platforms and solving real-time data challenges then we’d love to hear from you!

What’s In It for You?

• Build high-performance, highly reliable distributed systems that enable sophisticated trading workflows
• Collaborate across teams and organizations to deliver cutting‑edge solutions
• Play a central role in shaping the future of our trading data platforms

You’ll Need To Have

• Demonstrated experience building enterprise applications in C++
• Experience designing and maintaining large scale distributed systems
• A sharp eye for quality
• A proven track record of leading projects from design through implementation, testing, and release

We’d Love To See

• A practical approach to balancing performance, reliability, and developer experience
• Experience with distributed architectures and high‑throughput messaging
• Background in building scalable platforms

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