Bloomberg

Description & Requirements

What is PORT and PORT Enterprise, and where does the Data Validation Services (DVS) team fit in?

Bloomberg Portfolio Analytics (PORT) empowers the biggest players in the financial world to manage their portfolios, assess exposures, and make decisions that move the markets. Our flagship product on the Bloomberg Terminal is a mission-critical tool used daily by money managers, mutual funds, hedge funds, and pension funds around the world.

PORT Enterprise is a premium feature used by our largest clients with the most complex workflows. It allows them to integrate their own systems with PORT infrastructure, automating overnight processing and report generation.

DVS is a ‘white glove’ offering in addition to PORT Enterprise, and this is where our team comes in. As with any complex process, things can go wrong or behave in unexpected ways, and this can significantly impact our clients’ ability to fulfill their reporting requirements. Using integrations and tools built by the DVS team, the client-facing Enterprise Support team can identify and resolve their issues, often before they are even aware of the problem.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll get to shape the technical direction of this brand new product as we add more DVS coverage to various parts of the PORT Enterprise workflow. You’ll get the opportunity to:

• Work closely with the Product team to decide how DVS should interact with existing workflows, refining requirements and focusing on where the customer value lies
• Design a solution which strikes a balance between being quick-to-market, and easy to upgrade or maintain with evolving requirements

DVS clients are some of Bloomberg’s most sophisticated Enterprise clients, and ensuring a reliable and smooth service is critical. As we onboard more clients, the focus on reliability will grow. So, if you enjoy building high quality, maintainable and well-tested software, then speak to us!

Our full-stack technology suite includes back-end services integrating the PORT Enterprise workflows and front-end tools for client-facing support teams and for clients themselves:

• Python back-end
• Typescript UI
• React web-app
• Some C++ and Lua

You’ll need to have:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms and a data oriented approach to problem-solving
• Experience building full-stack, enterprise applications, ideally using Python/React
• A passion for learning - it’s a cliché, but our work involves integrating many existing services so you’ll spend a lot of time digging through existing code and understanding how it works
• Experience working on distributed systems
• A passion for writing expressive and elegant code without sacrificing the pragmatism of getting things done

We’d love to see:

• Experience working with Python in enterprise systems
• A passion for software engineering and solving complex problems
• A desire to write quality software and leave code in a better state than you found it