Senior Software Engineer - Insights Framework

Insights are a groundbreaking new way for clients to approach their workflow in the terminal. Instead of memorizing many different mnemonics and functions, clients have the ability to surface related, and potentially hard to discover, content where and when they need it within their day-to-day workflow in platforms such as IB, Mobile, and Launchpad.  Clients have the opportunity to easily and swiftly dive further for more context to make critical financial decisions.

The Insights organization’s mission is to make discovering the breadth and depth of impactful financial data available easier and quicker for finance professionals. IPaaS (Insights Platform As A Service) offers suggestions (known as insights) based on the context of the client’s current workflow. An insight is a carefully crafted auto-generated short sentence. Similar to a well-written news headline, an insight communicates the bottom line without the need to read the whole story. Insights often come with clickable links, abstract text, and other metadata to provide even more information, analogous to reading the full body of a news story.

The IPaaS Framework team is primarily focused on scaling, stability, and storage of Insights data. Our platform’s challenge is to provide a generic framework which uses the breadth of Bloomberg's financial data to quickly compute insights. Over 75,000 clients, and rapidly growing, access insights data per month in over 10 different UIs across the mobile app, in-panel, and Launchpad. Our ingestion pipeline handles 15 Million+ events per day and the query engine handles over 50K+ requests per day. In the next year, we expect the ingestion pipeline to handle over 50 Million events per day and the query engine, 1M client requests per day.

We are looking for a strong full stack engineer to help architect and scale IPaaS. A key challenge of IPaaS is performing calculations across many different data sets within several milliseconds for client interactions. The individual would also be heavily involved with collaborating with our 2 sister teams, working with business and stakeholders to define both client and non-client facing features, and mentor individuals on the team or sister teams. IPaaS currently has 40+ types of microservices written primarily in C++ and Python installed on Full Managed Linux(FML) machines. Our team strongly believes in adhering to the best industry practices, innovating impactful solutions, and continuous deployment to PROD.

•     Collaborate within the team, with sister teams, with Insights Product, and with external partners
•     Take ownership of the technical direction
•     Drive engineering best practices and quality
•     Mentor the team and sister teams
•     Identify bottlenecks and design strategies to address

•     Strong communication & interpersonal skills (verbal & written)
•     Strong ability to understand business requests and convert into technical deliverables
•     Strong architecture and design skills
•     Strong C++ and/or Python experience
•     BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related technology field

•     Experience with DPKG, JaaS, and other DevX/SRE tooling
•     Experience with Streaming technologies (BMS Kafka, BMQ, RabbitMQ)
•     Experience working in an “Agile” environment (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, PI)
•     Experience working in a Linux environment
•     Experience with Rapid

If this sounds like something you would be passionate about, please apply! We'll get in touch with you to let you know what the next steps are. 

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