Senior Software Engineer - Functional Programming

Company: Avature
Location: New York
Posted on: March 15, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Software Engineer - Functional ProgrammingLocation: New YorkBusiness Area: Engineering and CTORef #: 10042564Description & RequirementsAs a financial data, news, and analytics market leader, Bloomberg continuously invests in its technology to keep delivering the best data and analytics to support the global derivatives market. To this end, Bloomberg's Derivatives Engineering team is responsible for owning the full life-cycle of services and applications for pricing derivatives. We build systems and products that enable clients to generate trade ideas, structure deals, connect to electronic trading platforms and capture market movements.We sit at the intersection of finance and technology, working directly with product managers, financial engineers, and quantitative analysts to understand client and market needs. These foundational systems get billions of hits per day and provide data and analytics to many of Bloomberg's flagship products.What's in it for you?

• Be part of a passionate, growing community of talented software engineers within an environment where innovation is not only embraced, but encouraged.
• Gain experience applying functional programming to real production financial systems.
• Use OCaml to develop a robust template system to assist users in creating a wide range of financial instruments across various asset classes.
• Implement microservices and component-based designs.
• Opportunity to learn some of the financial domain that's at the core of the extensive derivative functionality.
• Help shape the strategy for growth of OCaml at Bloomberg by contributing to the various OCaml infrastructure projects across the company.We'll trust you to:
• Employ functional programming in building new cutting-edge systems and improving existing ones wherever possible.
• Work hand-in-hand with industry-expert product owners, financial engineers, and quantitative researchers to build applications and frameworks.
• Take leadership of technical solutions, implementation, and rollout to users.
• Champion new technologies, advocate for the latest developments and best practices in the open source community, challenge the status quo and inspire others to improve their craft.
• Represent Bloomberg in conferences and the wider functional programming community.
• Embrace teamwork and peer review of designs and code.You'll need to have:
• 4+ years working with a functional language (OCaml, Haskell, Scala etc.).
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience.
• An understanding of the benefits of composition; search for sum types in any language you write; and dearly miss pattern matching where you don't have it.
• Functional expertise in building microservices; contributing to system design and architecture; and scaling fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Honest approach to problem-solving, and ability to collaborate with peers, partners, and management.We'd love to see:
• Interest in the financial domain and passion for solving large scale challenging problems in the financial industry.
• Contributions to the open source community.
• Interest in mentoring and sharing knowledge with other team members.Salary Range: 160000-240000 USD Annually + Benefits + BonusThe referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training, and skill level.We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) + match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
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