Bloomberg Launchpad is the platform that hosts more than tens of thousands of Bloomberg's Terminal applications that underpin the global financial markets, and helps financial professionals stay productive 24/7/365. Launchpad is one of the most important Bloomberg infrastructures: the software we build ranges from the user platform to APIs, tools, and infrastructures that over 6,000 Bloomberg engineers depend on to build robust applications. We also heavily invest in optimization, metrics, and monitoring of all layers of the platform, as well as continuous integration/deployment and regression testing.

The team uses Typescript, Javascript and C++. We build critical server-side software that needs to scale to work with every Bloomberg user and thousands of applications and client-side software to manage the client’s desktop environment. Our software maintains the life-cycle of Bloomberg Terminal applications, provides storage as a service, rich APIs to communicate and share data between apps, and much more. Currently our team is re-architecting the system from the ground up, giving you the opportunity to make a lasting impact on one of Bloomberg’s most critical infrastructures. We are also responsible for the Launchpad user-level and application-level configuration data and build various applications to manage the data for our clients, engineers, sales and customer support teams. Our software development life cycle tools and processes in build, tests, continuous integration, and continuous deployment are continuously modernized and upgraded to keep our software stable and our developers productive.

In the Launchpad team, our work involves working across various stacks and collaborating with teams across the company, and we play a crucial role in integrating various client-side and server-side technologies together to make one rich-featured platform. 

What’s in it for you?

• An opportunity to leave your mark on a platform that is used by every Bloomberg user and APIs that are used by thousands of Bloomberg engineers every day.
• Exciting technical challenges in scalability, performance, data management, API design, user experience design, etc.
• An opportunity to work on a variety of technical stacks and architect a large-scale software range from server to client.
• Working in a close-knit team with supportive colleagues who like to discuss and share knowledge with each other.

We will expect you to:

• Work closely with the team to improve our Launchpad platform in a collaborative manner
• Collaborate across multiple teams, work with a variety of technologies and learn new skills as needed
• Design and implement maintainable software solution, API and distributed systems with proper testing plan and safe release strategies
• Have excellent logical thinking, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Be passionate about continuously improving our work and bringing in new technologies and tools to the team.

We would love to see:

• Experience in JavaScript / TypeScript / C++
• Extensive knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Passion about Automated testing, CI and CD
• Interest in following agile methodologies
• Desire to work on a high profile product and infrastructure and make an impact
• Experience working with distributed systems and telemetry
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.