Software Engineer

At BMLL we process terabytes of historical market data every day into suites of data products, which we then deliver to our customers.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone at or near the beginning of their career in technology to join us in the Data Distribution team. Our team owns the mechanisms that deliver data to customers, and ensures they 27re robust, scalable and secure.

Our promise is that however a customer gets BMLL's data, they get it in the most efficient, cost-effective and timely manner possible, and the systems we build and maintain are responsible for keeping it.

These systems are engineered to a high standard, using many technologies including Python, SQL, RDS/Postgres, Snowflake and Celery.

Your job will involve contributing to ongoing design and development, ensuring what we own stays efficient, precise, easy to understand, easy to operate, and free of errors. Our team is crucial to the success of BMLL's technology and commercial strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design and build solutions to distribute data to customers.
• Ensure 24/7 system reliability by implementing company and industry best practices.
• Implement workflow management software to automate operational tasks and optimize the utilisation of infrastructure and applications.
• Design and implement CI/CD workflows to maintain software quality via continuous and automated deployment and testing.
• Work hand-in-hand with product and operations teams.
• Review and assess tools that become available in the industry.

Requirements

• Degree in computer science or other STEM degree plus demonstrable computer science skill-set.
• 2+ years industry experience as a software engineer, or a data engineer leaning to software engineering.
• Good working knowledge of Python and SQL.
• Robust theoretical or practical understanding of concepts in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Linux.
• Avid learner, problem solver and detail-orientation.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desirable

• Development using AWS (or other cloud provider 27s) services.
• Snowflake, Databricks
• Working knowledge of admin-proximate tasks on a conventional RDBMS e.g., Postgres or Oracle query optimisation.
• C++, or C and Java