Engineering Team Lead - News Applications

Job Description

News and Social media move financial markets, and the Bloomberg Terminal serves as a leader in this space. In addition to being the second largest producer of news in the world, Bloomberg ingests more than 1.5 million news stories and over 10 million socialmedia posts per day from over 120,000 different sources. It is easy for clients to become overwhelmed and lost in the deluge of data. In this sense, our News Applications team builds products to help users to efficiently search, monitor, analyze and consumenews in the broader context of the financial market. To do so, our team uses a variety of technologies and services to build systems and UIs on the Bloomberg Terminal that serves millions of client requests daily. It requires close collaboration with business partners to build intuitive, informational, and flexibleUIs that can adapt to the constantly evolving news ecosystem and market demands. There is also an element of concurrent, distributed systems. Currently, our News Applications team is looking for a Team Lead. Engineering Team Leads at Bloomberg are very hands-on, and have the opportunity to build market-shaping products along with mentoring and empowering their dedicated engineers. Collaboration andadapting to a changing business environment will help you develop expertise of what our core product delivery entails, understand customer needs, and release products to meet those needs. Well trust you to:

• Be a hands-on technical leader and work side-by-side with your team
• Lead the development of technical solutions to meet current and future business needs, taking a long term view on the system as well as product
• Inspire and motivate a hard-working team to achieve great results
• Support individual growth and development
• Quickly get up to speed on the relevant business domain and navigate the organisation
• Develop partnerships between engineering as well as product teams, facilitate communication and ensure that the correct problems are being solved

Youll need to have:

• Extensive experience in software engineering
• Previous experience in leadership, managing and coaching globally distributed teams and influencing third party technology strategy
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• Ability to effectively communicate, challenge and influence team members, peers, and stakeholders
• History of successfully delivering on key initiatives and driving long-term strategic technology plans

Wed love to see:

• Software engineering skills in an object oriented language, covering algorithms, data structures, software architecture, exposure to the full development life cycle
• The desire to take ownership and responsibility of issues and handle effectively through to resolution
• The ability to foster a collaborative environment; through driving a strong culture of teamwork and taking advantage of team diversity
• An understanding and appreciation for agile development practices
• A keen interest in keeping abreast of technological advances and past success at incorporating new technology into existing systems
• Aim to build communities and support D&I initiatives

If this sounds like you: Apply if you think were a good match! Well get in touch with you to let you kno w what the next steps are. In the meantime, check us out at http:// ( http:// ) 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 maternity/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 .