Senior Software Engineer - Ticker Plant, Event Processing
Bloomberg
Administration, Software Engineering
London, UK
Posted on Mar 25, 2026
The Ticker Plant system is a central hub of the Bloomberg market data infrastructure, processing daily volumes of several hundred billions of real time market events across 100 million instruments. The events originating in the Ticker Plant ultimately drive every financial function on the Bloomberg Terminal and, through a range of Bloomberg Enterprise solutions, feed into trading and analytics back-end platforms of major financial institutions worldwide.
The Event Processing team within the Ticker Plant team plays a critical role in the heart of Bloomberg's data infrastructure. We process hundreds of billions of market order events per day, providing real-time market depth data to critical trading applications. We own and maintain the core trading session database and infrastructure, a critical component for aligning market data with trading hours across global exchanges, ensuring accurate and timely data delivery for our clients. We also provide Python bindings to the Ticker Plant C++ code, along with powerful debugging tools to streamline development and troubleshoot issues.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for problem solvers who enjoy a good challenge. The Ticker Plant at its core contains logic that normalizes venue-specific behavior into conformance with the Bloomberg Data Model. The complexity of this logic reflects the combined complexity of all execution venues across global financial markets. We work on projects ranging from scaling our systems to handle ever-increasing volume changes of market data, to architectural modernization, to workflow and process automation.
You will find this area exciting if you enjoy the voyage of discovery, are able to handle uncertainty, and enjoy breaking down a complex whole into manageable parts.
Due to the centrality of the Ticker Plant, our work has a profound impact across Bloomberg. Supporting and evolving a critical system of this scale and complexity presents unique and interesting challenges, which we invite you to help us tackle!
Our technologies?
We work primarily in C++ and Python, using a range of open source and bespoke software packages. We are open to applicants without prior experience in these languages, who possess proven software engineering background in similar technologies.
What's in it for you?
- Gain hands-on experience and understanding of challenges involved in designing, evolving, and maintaining large scale critical enterprise systems
- Join a diverse multicultural group of versatile engineers, with an opportunity to move between teams or regions as your expertise develops and your interests evolve
- Make an impact visible across the global financial services industry
You'll need to have:
- Experience working with an object-oriented programming language (C/C++, Python, Java, etc.)
- A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
- An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
- Pragmatic engineering approach with focus on real world problem solving, not letting perfect be the enemy of good
We'd love to see:
- A background of refactoring and simplifying relationships between components and data flows
- Experience working for a market data processor
- Experience working on high-throughput real time systems