Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to capital markets. Instant Bloomberg (IB) is Bloomberg's instant messaging system, which is used by the Bloomberg community for real-time communication including exchanging quotes, trade ideas, news and other financial information. Our email and instant message products deliver billions of messages across millions of chat rooms per day to form one of the largest financial networks in the world. Our users rely on these products because of their real-time performance, massive scale, ironclad security, tight integration with financial data and applications on the Bloomberg Terminal. Most important is the singular access to the Bloomberg network of financial professionals. IB Connect is a suite of APIs that allows people to seamlessly integrate with the Bloomberg chat product to programmatically interact with various capabilities, such as: streaming live messages in real-time, building chatbots and replying to messages. The IB Connect teams are responsible for building and evolving the core infrastructure to power this. The IB API Platform team in London is looking to evolve the product and introduce automated solutions where clients can ultimately log into a new enterprise self-service portal. The team is also responsible for improving the developer experience of the product making it easier to try and easier to use, through initiatives such as automatic code generation of SDKs, more flexible and dynamic endpoints, generating unique trial links for users and building an internal and external developer community. **What’s in it for you:** + Work on highly visible, sought-after IB connect and IB chatbot products. + You will have the opportunity to meet directly with clients, to discuss their workflows, and ideas and gain hands-on understanding of how the financial markets operate. + You will be responsible for executing the vision of how the team will build and publish its integration frameworks. This will involve guiding your team in building APIs that are functionally complete, usability rich, and conducive to enabling seamless development experience. + Plenty of opportunities to collaborate with other teams in the community org, as well as our partners responsible for the delivery and overall experience of the API product. **What we look for:** + We are looking for strong problem solvers who are willing to understand the administration of the IB connect enterprise products and motivated to constantly improve the onboarding and development experience for our clients + Individuals who enjoy taking ownership and championing the new products and features we are building; contributing to roadmap ideas, socialising them internally and externally **You'll need to have:** + Strong programming skills in TypeScript both on the server-side and client-side + Comfortable working in C++ and Python codebases + Strong Fundamentals in Algorithms, Data Structures, Systems and Databases + Familiarity with design, implementation and problems of large-scale distributed systems + Experience with object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms and all phases of the SDLC **We’d love to see:** + Experience with building large, scalable, real time distributed systems + Prior experience on building platforms and APIs for enterprise applications + You enjoy attending meetings with our current, new and prospective clients Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law. Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for the recruitment process. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email amer_recruit@bloomberg.net