Bloomberg

Senior Software Engineer, News Automation Platform

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7 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and evolve software powering automated news and insights at significant scale.
  • Own projects from early ideas and technical design through implementation, testing, and production.
  • Modernize the distributed content-generation platform to improve performance, flexibility, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Build observability and data-governance tools that trace data from source to publication and help diagnose issues.
  • Develop anomaly-detection systems while controlling false positives.
  • Contribute to AI-powered tools for editors and reporters, emphasizing accuracy, evaluation, and user experience.
  • Collaborate with Newsroom, Product, and Engineering teams to turn ambiguous needs into practical technical solutions.
  • Improve system reliability, testing, operability, and engineering practices.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience developing production software in Python, Java, C++, or a similar programming language.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable, maintainable, well-tested production systems.
  • Experience designing, building, or evolving distributed systems with a focus on architectural trade-offs.
  • Ability to break down problems, evaluate trade-offs, and develop practical solutions.
  • Collaborative approach and ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues.
  • Sense of ownership and curiosity about the systems being developed.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience with high-throughput event-driven systems and event-driven architectures or messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  • Preferred experience with observability, data lineage, data governance, LLM applications, TypeScript, React, or other frontend technologies.
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10,000+ employees

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency and efficiency, and fairness to markets. We help connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration. We challenge the status quo through constant innovation. We collaborate broadly because we know that other perspectives matter. We put our customers first, as a guiding beacon. And we believe doing the right thing – by our people, our clients, and our communities – is the best thing for our business.

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