Senior Software Engineer - BQL

Bloomberg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) + match

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Life insurance

Wellness programs

Job summary

Bloomberg is seeking an experienced Software Engineer specialized in scaling applications to enhance their BQL platform used by clients for data access. Applicants should have a strong background in programming languages and data processing techniques.

The role offers a salary range of $160,000 to $240,000 annually, along with one of the most comprehensive benefits plans in the industry.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in scaling applications/services.
• Hands-on experience with indexing, joining, aggregating, and sharding.

Responsibilities

• Adapt to large, complex, and interconnected systems.
• Collaborate on problem-solving, design, and implementation.
• Innovate with solutions across the BQL ecosystem.

Skills

Experience in modern programming languages

Understanding of internals of languages/frameworks

Large-scale data processing

Test-driven design and development

Education

BA, BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

To capture opportunities and evaluate risk in fast‑moving markets, financial institutions of all sizes require performant access to the wealth of financial data and analytics available across Bloomberg’s ecosystem. The Bloomberg Query Language (BQL) is the nexus of this data access and distributed analytics. Through an intuitive workflow construction and querying language, BQL enhances our client’s experience by unifying access to Bloomberg’s external APIs and internal services. It’s a one‑stop‑shop used directly by clients via a powerful Excel Plugin, it is the powerhouse behind Bloomberg’s BQuant product and is used internally by domain application teams to build Terminal Functions.

A core team of 100+ engineers is passionately working on multiple initiatives:

• Providing unified and consistent access and analytics on top of Bloomberg’s rich data through a common API and expression language.
• Scaling the BQL infrastructure to handle more users, and more challenging use cases and datasets.
• Developing infrastructure and workflows for domain application teams around the company to accelerate onboarding processes for new datasets in BQL.

We’ll trust you to

• Adapt to large, complex, and interconnected systems
• Collaborate on problem solving, design, and implementation
• Innovate with all of your solutions
• Evolve yourself, the code, systems, teams, and tools
• Think about the bigger picture
• Integrate your solutions with the BQL ecosystem
• Own your solutions from inception through release

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of experience scaling applications and services in a modern programming language (C++, Java, Scala, Go, Python, JavaScript, etc.).
• Strong understanding of the internals of the languages and frameworks you use, and how they scale (or don’t) to different problems.
• Hands‑on experience with large‑scale data processing: indexing, joining, aggregating, parallelism, orchestration, compression, and sharding.
• Proficiency with test‑driven design and development.
• BA, BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

Have experience in some of these areas but not all? The Bloomberg Engineering culture is growth oriented, and has loads of opportunities for you to fill in these gaps along the way in your career. Through our very active and vast guild community covering most languages, technologies, and problem spaces, you can build a strong network to leverage, and expertise to bring innovation into your team.

Salary Range = 160,000‑240,000 USD Annual+ Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) + match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.