IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer, News Automation Platform

Bloomberg

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will contribute to Bloomberg News’ automation platform, delivering reliable, scalable software that turns data signals into timely content. You’ll work with a cross-functional team to modernise the distributed architecture, improve observability and data governance, and develop AI-assisted tools for editors and reporters. The role combines backend focus with some frontend work, using a modern tech stack to support high-throughput content generation. You’ll have a meaningful impact on speed, accuracy and reliability of published news at scale.

Responsibilities
  • Design, build and evolve software powering automated news and insights at scale
  • Own projects from ideation through production, testing and deployment
  • Modernise the distributed content-generation platform for performance and maintainability
  • Build observability and data governance tooling to trace data from source to publication
  • Develop intelligent systems to detect content anomalies while controlling false positives
  • Contribute to AI-powered tools that improve editors' and reporters' efficiency and accuracy
  • Collaborate with Newsroom, Product and Engineering to translate needs into practical technical solutions
  • Improve system reliability, testing, and operability and share improvements to engineering practices
Key requirements
  • 4+ years of production software development experience in Python, Java, C++ or similar language
  • Strong fundamentals in software engineering with reliable, maintainable, well-tested systems
  • Experience designing or evolving distributed systems with architectural trade-offs
  • Ability to break down problems, assess trade-offs and implement practical solutions
  • Collaborative mindset with ability to work with both technical and non-technical colleagues
  • Ownership mindset and curiosity about the systems you work on
  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience
  • Desirable: experience with high-throughput event-driven systems, Kafka or RabbitMQ, observability, data governance, AI/LLMs, frontend tech (TypeScript/React)
  • collaborative
  • ownership
  • curiosity
  • Python
  • Java
  • C++

Reference: WJ-747_30223152

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