Senior Software Engineer - Electronic Trading, Pune
Bloomberg's Equity Request for Quote (RFQE) platform is the largest Equity RFQ trading platform in the world, connecting buy-side and sell-side institutions across global equity markets. The platform enables trading in Stocks, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Options, and Futures, serving a diverse client base that includes asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, high-frequency trading firms, and market makers. As of 2025, the Bloomberg Equity RFQ platform holds approximately 60% market share in Europe and 58% market share in the United States.
Bloomberg continues to invest heavily in the growth and evolution of its electronic trading platforms. As trading workflows become increasingly sophisticated and volumes continue to grow, we are looking for engineers who are excited to build scalable, high-performance systems that operate at the center of global financial markets.
Our Team
The Equity RFQE team is responsible for the complete end-to-end ownership of Bloomberg's Equity RFQ platform, including all backend services, frontend applications, APIs, trading workflows, and operational tooling behind RFQE and the recently introduced STRT platform.
We operate as a full-stack engineering team, building and maintaining highly distributed, low-latency trading systems that support mission-critical workflows for some of the largest financial institutions in the world. Our engineers work across the entire technology stack, from real-time trading services and market connectivity to modern web applications and user experience.
Our technology stack includes C++ and Python services running on Linux, TypeScript and RAPID front-end applications, and a broad range of Bloomberg and industry-standard technologies including BMQ, MBUS/DMP, FIX, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ZooKeeper, PostgreSQL, Splunk, Grafana, CMake, DPKG, Pytest, and Google Test.
Most of our platform has been developed and modernized within the last few years, providing an opportunity to work with modern architectures and engineering practices while solving challenging problems in distributed systems, reliability, observability, and performance.
You'll have opportunities to:
- Design and build highly scalable distributed systems that support real-time trading workflows
- Work directly with Product, Sales, Market Structure, and clients to shape the future of Bloomberg's RFQ offering
- Develop low-latency services and APIs that power mission-critical trading functionality
- Build intuitive user experiences used by traders around the world
- Modernize and enhance platform architecture to support future growth and new asset classes
- Drive technical strategy and influence architectural decisions across multiple teams
- Gain deep exposure to global capital markets, electronic trading protocols, and market microstructure
- Our team works closely with colleagues across Engineering, Product, Sales, and Support organizations globally. We follow modern Agile development practices, including sprint planning, code reviews, automated testing, continuous integration, observability-driven operations, and collaborative design reviews.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who:
- Brings strong software engineering fundamentals, enjoys solving complex distributed systems challenges, and is passionate about building resilient, scalable, and maintainable software
- Just as importantly, we're looking for engineers who are curious, collaborative, and eager to contribute new ideas while helping elevate the technical excellence of the broader team
We'll trust you to:
- Design, develop, and maintain critical components of Bloomberg's Equity RFQ platform
- Build scalable backend services and modern frontend applications that support global trading workflows
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders across multiple regions
- Drive architectural discussions and technical decision-making for new initiatives
- Improve system performance, reliability, observability, and operational efficiency
- Champion engineering best practices around testing, monitoring, deployment, and code quality
- Mentor teammates and contribute to a strong engineering culture
- Partner with peer teams across Bloomberg's trading ecosystem to deliver integrated solutions
You'll need to have:
- 4+ years of demonstrated software engineering experience in C++, Python, Typescript
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and software architecture
- Experience developing and operating production services with a focus on scalability and reliability
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development practices
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- A strong sense of ownership and ability to drive projects independently
We'd love to see:
- Experience working on financial trading systems, electronic markets, or real-time transaction processing platforms
- Experience with distributed messaging systems, event-driven architectures, or market connectivity protocols such as FIX
- Experience with modern observability tooling and production operations
- Experience leading significant technical initiatives or platform modernization efforts
If this sounds like you:
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