New York
3 days ago
Senior Software Engineer - Compliance Search

Financial firms are fined millions of dollars when just one employee does something they shouldn't. It can be as serious as insider trading or as seemingly innocent as an inappropriate instant message. Keeping track of who is saying, doing, and trading what is a daunting task for compliance officers, especially with the explosion in the volume and variety of data produced by communications and trading platforms.


That’s where Bloomberg Compliance comes in. Bloomberg Compliance provides a single platform for storage, reconstruction, search and extraction of our customer’s communication, collaboration, and financial transaction data. More than 1,000 organizations use our product to manage and archive their enterprise communications as they face an ever-evolving regulatory landscape.


Bloomberg’s Compliance Search Engine lies at the heart of our infrastructure and powers complex analytical workflows across a suite of financial applications. The search team is responsible for the complete and accurate capture of customer data, ranging from trade lifecycles to email, voice, and social media data as well as Bloomberg proprietary message and chat platforms.


As part of this mission, the search team maintains and operates a sophisticated multi-tenant private SOLR cloud, hosting 2 Petabytes of data, capturing an average of 50 million communications and 700GB of indexed data a day, while serving thousands of eDiscovery requests a week.


We are currently hiring Solr search experts as we continue to invest in scaling our platform, modernizing our infrastructure and bringing novel search workflows to market. Our present initiatives center around federation, enrichments, and utilizing quantitative methodologies within our existing workflows. 


As part of our team, you will be trusted to:

Develop and maintain new architecture to support large scale multi-tenant cloud native SOLR Search platform that is optimized for relevancy and latency

Write clear and maintainable code

Drive and balance the incorporation of new technologies while improving development practices

Be passionate about application performance and user satisfaction

Mentor others by encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing


You’ll need to have:

4+ years of experience with an object-oriented programming language (Python / Java )

Proficiency in devising scalable and performant open source search technology, Solr, Elastic Search, etc....

Experience building and maintaining Java back-end microservices following the Domain Driven Design paradigm.

Experience in developing and maintaining large scale distributed systems

Willingness and excitement to learn new things and work across a diverse set of languages and tools

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, and/or related professional experience

Excellent communication and collaboration skills


We’d love to see:

Experience with indexing techniques to optimize for higher search engine performance

Experience with and background in Information Retrieval, Ranking Systems.

Experience with Search Relevance 

Track record of improving developer experience pushing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery





Salary Range = 160000 - 240000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus
The 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, [Exempt roles only], 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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