Senior Software Engineer Electronic Trading, Pune

Senior Software Engineer - Electronic Trading Pune Location Pune Business Area Engineering and CTO Ref #

Description & Requirements

Bloombergs 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 TeamThe Equity RFQE team is responsible for the complete end-to-end ownership of Bloombergs 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.
Youll 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 Bloombergs 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 were looking for engineers who are curious collaborative and eager to contribute new ideas while helping elevate the technical excellence of the broader team

Well trust you to:

• Design develop and maintain critical components of Bloombergs 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 Bloombergs trading ecosystem to deliver integrated solutions

Youll 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

Wed 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:Apply if you think were a good match. Well get in touch to let you know what the next steps are but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this:Introducing our Pune Engineering teamsBloomberg EngineeringTechnology at BloombergLearn more about our Pune office and benefits
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Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1