BQuant Quantitative Developer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026. Bloomberg scores A on the Alion truth index.
Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, news and insight, and we use innovative technology to deliver trusted data and bring transparency to the financial markets. Our customers around the globe rely on us for the information and tools they need to make critical investment decisions and remain connected across all sides of the financial community. And, to ensure the best experience for our 26,000+ employees across more than 150 locations around the world, we provide the spaces and systems that allow our teams to work together with agility, productivity and collaboration, no matter where they are.
The BQuant Desktop Team works closely with Bloomberg’s existing and prospective clients to find solutions to business needs leveraging our Python based quant platform, BQuant.
What's the role?
You will use your financial markets knowledge to consult with Bloomberg clients or prospective clients, helping them to develop and implement their investment strategies and research leveraging BQuant. With access to the world's most comprehensive financial database, you will have a direct impact on Bloomberg revenue by working closely with our Sales teams to develop new tactical desktop applications to sell Bloomberg Terminals and improve workflow efficiencies with our existing customers. Your role will involve full life-cycle development, from initial demos to prospective clients, requirement gathering, prototyping, implementation, deployment and adoption.
We'll trust you to:
- Drive adoption of the BQuant Desktop platform
- Partner with Sales teams to build tactical BQuant solutions to increase revenue opportunities for the company
- Provide assistance on new strategies or migration projects the clients wish to implement by using BQuant
- Work closely with our Product Development and Software Engineering teams to help drive improvements to our BQuant platform
Training and team support will allow you to gain:
- In depth knowledge of the Terminal, Bloomberg APIs and BQuant
- A deep understanding of financial markets and investment processes on both buy-side and sell-side
- Experience of open source Python technologies for advanced data visualizations, widgets and analytics
You’ll need to have:
- 3 to 8 years of experience working in financial services or a financial technology company
- Experience developing financial models using Python
- Experience in one or more asset class (Equities, Fixed Income, Commodities, FX, etc.)
- A strategic mindset and proven commercial acumen which allows you to weigh up the business opportunities of a project before execution
- Confidence to have highly articulate and consultative interactions with clients
- Strong presentation and communication skills in Japanese and English
We'd love to see:
- Experience or qualifications in Data Science and Cloud Computing
If this sounds like you:
Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/bloomberg-terminal/research/bquant/
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