Location Pune Business Area Engineering and CTO Ref # 10051825 Description &

Requirements 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 solid 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

Solid 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 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: #ENTP #ENTPET Discover what makes Bloomberg unique - watch our for an inside look at our culture, values, and the people behind our success.

📌 Senior Software Engineer - Electronic Trading, Pune
🏢 Bloomberg
📍 Pune