About the position
Join the Pioneers of Trading Technology: Imagine working on a team that's revolutionizing the way financial markets operate, with trillions of dollars traded on your systems every day. Cross-Asset Trading System (CATS) is a flexible trading blotter that allows Bloomberg teams to configure, customize, and run any trading application. We are replacing legacy systems and building new infrastructure using the latest technologies, making it cheaper to create and maintain new trading applications. You'll be building scalable, reliable, high volume platforms and solving some of the toughest problems in software with industry experts. Be a Part of Something Big: As a senior software engineer at CATS Actions Middleware, you'll be part of a full-stack platform team that's pushing the boundaries of what's possible with TypeScript. Our mission is to onboard and unite the trading system worlds and reimagine the trading experience to create new, powerful workflows. We'll trust you to: Impact & Network, Lead critical projects and design features that will help shape the future of trading technology, Expand your network by collaborating with product managers and engineering teams across Bloomberg to onboard onto the platform and improve your understanding of the trading ecosystem. Technical Challenge, Work with and drive the incorporation of cutting-edge technologies to offer next-generation trading functionality to clients and improve development practices, Develop and deploy backend services to store user application configurations, Develop client-side services that enhance data subscription pipelines to support multiple instruments in more performant ways. Creative Challenge, Enhance the platform to expand our APIs and plugins to make the platform more customizable, Challenge your creativity and innovation to reimagine and simplify our customer workflows. Be creative in solving complex problems while understanding the scope and impact of your work. Learning Culture, Experiment and take risks, knowing that experimentation and mistakes are a sign of growth and learning, Learn from experienced engineers and mentors who are passionate about sharing their knowledge, Mentor others and encourage knowledge sharing in order to drive the growth of the team.
Responsibilities
- Lead critical projects and design features that will help shape the future of trading technology
- Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams across Bloomberg to onboard onto the platform
- Work with and drive the incorporation of cutting-edge technologies to offer next-generation trading functionality
- Develop and deploy backend services to store user application configurations
- Develop client-side services that enhance data subscription pipelines to support multiple instruments
- Enhance the platform to expand APIs and plugins for customization
- Challenge creativity and innovation to reimagine and simplify customer workflows
- Experiment and take risks to foster growth and learning
- Mentor others and encourage knowledge sharing
Requirements
- Programming experience in TypeScript/JavaScript
- A desire to learn about the different trading ecosystems
- Good communication skills and ability to explain technical problems to non-technical stakeholders
- A desire to deepen knowledge and understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript
- Strong software engineering mindset and advocate for SDLC best practices
- A desire to learn, understand and scale existing systems, and share knowledge
- An open mind to new technologies and practices
Nice-to-haves
- Experience developing trading applications
- Familiarity with Redux or React
- Experience developing generic platforms, APIs, or plugins
- Experience leading large projects with multiple stakeholders
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
Benefits
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short and long term disability benefits
- 401(k) with match
- Life insurance
- Various wellness programs
