Every day, trillions of dollars pass through the Bloomberg Terminal. As a result, hundreds of thousands of financial professionals rely on our enterprise applications to manage their portfolios, execute their trades and analyse the markets.
The Trading Connectivity Team supports the Trading Connectivity platform which links to multiple exchanges and venues around the globe. Our network includes one of the largest private electronic networks of brokers with around 5400+ sessions globally, providing a customizable system for routing to a diverse range of destinations. We’re a global team located in Frankfurt, New York, Pune and Hong Kong.
Our system is highly reputed and extremely reliable processing more than 10 million transactions a day, exceeding 10 thousand transactions per second peak rates. We are responsible for ensuring quality, completeness and accuracy of these Trading Connectivity products by leveraging automation frameworks & tools built by our-self. Our software ensures coverage of functional and non-functional use cases that are periodically running via Continuous Integration pipelines. Quality and Reliability is what we strive for, and that includes observability to ensure our systems are of high quality, or if issues arise the remediation can be addressed quickly before they become a major issue.
To strengthen our team, we seek a talented and highly self-motivated Senior Software Engineer in Test at our Frankfurt office.

What’s in it for you: Be part of a team which has been on the forefront of automation and test practices in Bloomberg Have the opportunity to work on challenging issues while collaborating with experts in the industry Build automated tools that will test products that impact the transactional data of our customers Be part of a multicultural environment which fosters Diversity & Inclusion and encourages to participate and present in Tech conferences
You'll need to have: A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience Experience programming in Python and/or JavaScript and/or C++A passion for testing, and a keen eye for automation with a sense for the quality and correctness of developed softwareStrong knowledge of UNIX or Linux systemsStrong skills in solving challenging problems within a collaborative environment within a distributed team
We'd love to see: Experience in building Automated testing frameworksExperience with financial marketsKnow-how with the FIX protocol, FIX testing and creating automated tests for FIX protocol workflowsKnowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies like DockerFamiliarity with monitoring tools like Grafana and Humio as well as CI/CD tools such as JenkinsFocus and driven to know about the latest industry standards while applying them to our workflow
Our culture: We’re proud of our culture and collaboration sits at the centre of how we operate, you’ll collaborate across teams and locations on a global scale, both virtually and in person.Engineers at Bloomberg actively shape the direction of our technology and products, helping drive innovation.Frankfurt is one of 12 engineering hubs at Bloomberg, since being established in 2014 Frankfurt has enjoyed consistent growth, now with 140 employees and 90 in engineering, the office has become an integral part of Bloomberg's global tech communities and initiatives.We employ a hybrid work model, which gives our engineers flexibility but also allows us to collaborate across teams.We’re big advocates of getting together and sharing ideas, we hold regular internal and external tech, social and philanthropic events to strengthen our relationships with the local community.Our Frankfurt office is in the heart of the city, it's also newly refurbished, so for the days that you’re in the office you can enjoy brand-new facilities, which include a fully stocked pantry serving breakfasts and lunches.
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Alongside a great culture, we also offer Frankfurt employees a comprehensive list of benefits, which include: 100% coverage on health insurance costs for employees and eligible family members30+ days holiday per yearEndless opportunities to participate in philanthropic events and charity daysSponsorship for continuous education and professional developmentSponsorship to attend external events and global conferences