Engineering Team Lead - Market Data Infrastructure, Frankfurt
Bloomberg
Other Engineering
Frankfurt, Germany
Posted on Jan 6, 2026
Bloomberg’s Market Data platform powers critical analytics and real-time decision-making across global financial markets. We operate one of the largest, most latency-sensitive data pipelines in the world — ingesting, normalizing, storing, and distributing hundreds of billions of events daily across 100M+ instruments.
We’re adding team leads in two areas to support our growing Frankfurt engineering team:
- Market Data Feeds – high-volume exchange connectivity and normalization
- Market Data Storage & Retrieval – large-scale time-series storage and query infrastructure
If you're motivated by high-scale systems, rapid decision cycles, and the chance to shape new teams from the ground up, this is your arena.
What You’ll Lead
- Build, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team — hiring included.
- Drive architecture and delivery of scalable, low-latency, highly available systems.
- Instill an engineering culture centered on clarity, accountability, and quality.
- Partner with stakeholders to align priorities, manage expectations, and deliver iteratively.
- Collaborate across global engineering groups to evolve shared infrastructure and standards.
- Establish team vision, operating model, and cultural foundations
What You Bring
- Experience managing and mentoring engineers in a fast-paced environment.
- A track record of delivering complex distributed systems or large-scale infrastructure.
- Strong communication skills and comfort navigating high-stakes, cross-team work.
- Technical leadership that balances execution with long-term strategic thinking.
- Recent, practical coding experience to participate in code reviews and handle scoped development work
Nice to Have
- Experience working with globally distributed teams.
- Background in real-time, high-throughput, or fault-tolerant systems.
- Exposure to financial market data or streaming data infrastructure.
Why This Role Matters
You’ll lead teams building the systems that sit at the core of Bloomberg’s data ecosystem—where reliability, speed, and correctness directly impact clients worldwide. The scope is large, the technical challenges are real, and the impact is immediate.
If you want to lead engineering teams solving some of the hardest real-time data problems at global scale, we’d like to talk.
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 members
- 30+ days holiday per year
- Endless opportunities to participate in philanthropic events and charity days
- Sponsorship for continuous education and professional development
- Sponsorship to attend external events and global conferences