Posted 3w ago

Senior Software Engineer - Office Apps

@ Bloomberg
New York City, New York, United States
HybridFull Time
Responsibilities:designing features, implementing features, delivering services
Requirements Summary:4+ years in JavaScript/TypeScript; degree in CS/Engineering/Math or equivalent; strong problem-solving and collaboration; mentoring; SPA/Office Extensibility experience preferred.
Technical Tools Mentioned:JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, GraphQL, Kafka
Save
Mark Applied
Hide Job
Report & Hide
Job Description
The Bloomberg Office Apps team empowers our customers to make crucial financial decisions in their daily workflows. Our team accomplishes this goal by providing seamless access to Bloomberg’s universe of Market Data and services in the customer’s complex analytics consumed on proprietary cross-platform Microsoft 365 models. As the financial markets move, our customers can confidently make informed choices as their models recalculate automatically.

Our engineering team works on projects adhering to principles of open communication and collaboratively debating diverse design ideas. With a focus on usability, reliability, and efficiency, we build services and single page web applications to support over 300K monthly customers making over 4 billion requests. As business continues to evolve, the team continues to reevaluate our technology choices and adopt next gen open-source tools on Microsoft desktop/mobile/cloud platforms that best address the customer’s workflow needs.

Your Role:
As a member of this team, you will work on designing, implementing, and delivering new features for our productivity tools. This role focuses on the following projects:
User-friendly Financial Research authoring tools
Trading order management application 
Scalable backend services:
Capture analytics and client usage information
Persist application state and configurations
Office Files management on Bloomberg Cloud
Office-for-Web platform to host customized Office environment in Browser

To achieve this goal, we’ll rely on your unique background, perspective, and technical expertise to overcome complex business logic problems, discoverability hurdles, and scalability challenges to make new features intuitive, responsive, performant, and secure. Your contribution will have a significant impact on the daily workflows of Bloomberg customers.

Our Technologies:
JavaScript/TypeScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, GraphQL, Kafka

You'll need to have:
4+ years working in JavaScript/TypeScript
A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
Honest approach to problem-solving, and ability to collaborate with peers, partners and management to develop high quality scalable solutions using a test-driven approach
Ability to mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, enforce best practices

We'd love to see:
Experience with SPA frameworks (e.g. React/Redux)
Experience with Microsoft Office Extensibility technologies (e.g. Office.JS, Custom Functions)
Experience building GraphQL/REST services