Senior Software Engineer - Chat App Performance
Bloomberg
Instant Bloomberg (IB) is the leading chat application in the finance industry and it plays a vital role in the lead Bloomberg holds in the marketplace.
IB is used by financial professionals to deliver billions of messages across millions of chat rooms per day. This includes stock quotes, trade confirmations, breaking news alerts etc.. As a result, it cultivates one of the largest financial networks in the world.
With the demand higher than ever and the competition heating up, we are energized and committed to fortifying our position as best in class.
The increased demand results in our users continuing to push the limits of our app as we look to stay one step ahead. This is where the IB App Performance team comes in.
The Team (IB App Performance)
The IB App Performance team is focused on improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of the most heavily used Bloomberg application. IB is critical to our clients' day to day and we set out to ensure that it can keep up with clients' growing needs. The team takes on a wide range of work focusing on both long term and near term goals.
As part of this team you would have influence on current/future features developed within IB. You would also be challenged to build those features to be highly available, scalable and be low latency.
**What’s in it for you:**
+ Have a big impact by working on a business critical, industry leading product
+ Unique, challenging, thought provoking problem space
+ Greenfield opportunities
+ Opportunity to work across a modern technology stack with a mix of infrastructure and application work
+ You will get to be part of a friendly, helpful team with a great culture: we collaborate on every project!
+ Be at the forefront of deciding the design for critical infrastructure.
**You’ll need to have:**
+ 4+ years working with an object-oriented programming language such as JavaScript/Typescript, C/C++, Java, or Python
+ A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience.
+ Ability to collaborate with our stakeholders to take their ideas and break them down into clearly scoped projects
+ Interest in system design and architecture
+ Strong collaboration and teamwork skills
**What we’d love to see:**
+ Interest or experience in profiling and optimizing applications
+ Experience with Javascript or web development
+ A strong sense of ownership and a passion to build great products
+ A desire to continuously improve personally and at a team level (architecture, workflows, coding practices, testing).
Salary: 160000,240000,USD,Annual
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