Senior Python Engineer - News Automation Infrastructure

Bloomberg

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Posted:

May 2, 2020

Location:

London, United Kingdom

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Salary:

Open

Type:

Full Time

Bloomberg is a market leader in Financial Journalism. We have a lot of data in our ecosystem that can be challenging for manual analysis. Automated news aims to uncover the signals hidden in these large sets of data, convert the signals into a news story and get the story out to our clients within milliseconds. Our team is responsible for the infrastructure that powers this.

We enable our "clients"(-another engineering team responsible for the content and business logic) to easily subscribe to data from across Bloomberg. We support a custom coding tool to write Python scripts which convert data to news stories. We support systems that configure when these stories will run and the encoding and publishing of the resulting stories to clients.

We have a fairly large distributed, microservices architecture. Stability is at the forefront as we provide primary news coverage for critical areas such as company earnings, change in economic indicators and bond issues. Some of these stories have to be generated and delivered within a few hundred milliseconds. The system also has to be flexible so people can go from an idea to a client-facing news story as quickly as possible.

Most of our server code is written in Python, with user interfaces in JavaScript. We also use Redis, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ and Solr in critical parts of our system.

What's in it for you?

Working in a team with a great mix of infrastructure and application projects
Working in a very friendly, helpful collaborative team with a great team culture. We work together on all projects, with a lot of pairing.
Being at the forefront of automated journalism

We will expect you to:

Be keen to work in a collaborative scrum team, with collective ownership of the system
Be comfortable in coding in Python
Be keen to follow and improve our team's design, coding and testing standards

We would love to see:

Experience in working with distributed systems, micro-services, Python 3
Interest in system design and architecture
Ability to collaborate with our stakeholders - to take their ideas and break them down into technical requirements
A passion for creating good developer experience (for us and our clients)
An interest in coaching and mentoring

If this sounds like you, apply!

Interview process:
We believe interviewing is a two way street. It's a way for us to get to know you and your skills, and also a way for you to learn more about the team, our technical challenges, and what you'd be working on. The content of each interview round will be tailored to the role and your background, but the general framework can be found here: https://www.bloomberg.com/careers/technology/engineering/software-engineering-experienced-hire/

We want to ensure you can put your best foot forward throughout the process, so if you have any questions or need any accommodations to be successful, please let us know.

And do check out our blog, TechAtBloomberg.com/ to learn more.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Internal Number: 7765842

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