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Senior Software Engineer - Editorial Apps & Platforms
Location
London
Business Area
Engineering and CTO
Ref #
10048322

Description & Requirements

Bloomberg News, Research, and Media make up one of the world’s largest and most influential news organizations - more than 2,700 journalists and analysts across 120+ countries - delivering market-moving reporting at global scale. Our award-winning journalism, recognized with multiple Pulitzer Prizes, Loeb Awards, and Emmys, drives decision-making for business leaders, investors, and policymakers every day.

We are responsible for the full product suite behind Bloomberg’s editorial and research workflow - including content discovery platforms, analyst coding environments, research & content management systems.

Our teams builds tools that enable content creators to:

  • Discover insights buried in massive datasets
  • Write, edit, visualize, and publish high-impact stories
  • Collaborate to build content in real time
  • Personalize workflows across editorial domains
  • Accelerate research and reduce time-to-market
  • Leverage AI to uncover narratives and optimize content delivery

Our mission is simple:
Build software to generate real-time content, visual insights, and analysis that give Bloomberg clients an edge in monitoring markets around the world.

This mission unifies the entire Editorial Apps & Platforms portfolio - from discovery to data analysis to publishing - ensuring Bloomberg’s content creators can produce trusted, market-moving insights with unprecedented speed and intelligence.

Where We’re Going

In 2026 and beyond, we’re bringing these ecosystems together under a unified vision:

  • AI-native editorial workflows (story optimization, metadata inference, human-in-the-loop content drafting)
  • Personalized content tools based on user roles, beats, and expertise
  • Faster, more robust publishing pipelines, helping us automate how editors promote stories
  • Cross-platform editorial collaboration
  • Modernized web-first authoring and data analysis tools
  • Consistent metadata governance & quality

What You’ll Do:

As a Senior Software Engineer in Editorial Apps & Platforms, you will:

  • Build scalable, full-stack applications using technologies such as Python, Typescript, React/NextJS, Kafka, Redis and Bloomberg’s internal platforms.
  • Own the full software development lifecycle: architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment, and support.
  • Work directly with editors, reporters, analysts, economists, researchers, and product managers to understand their workflows and craft intuitive, high-impact solutions.
  • Develop re-usable federated web applications powering editorial and research content creation.
  • Contribute to the modernization of our CMS platforms, coding environments, and content discovery tools.
  • Experiment with AI, NLP, and automation to improve quality, reduce friction, and accelerate content creation.
  • Uphold high standards for code quality, testing, CI, resilience, and maintainability.

You'll Need to Have:

  • Strong experience in an object-oriented programming language (Python, C++, Java, etc.).
  • Experience building robust, production-grade full-stack applications.
  • Ability to collaborate with non-technical and technical users alike.
  • A passion for enabling others - building tools that empower content creators.

We'd love to see:

  • Experience with React/NextJS, Typescript, modern web UI patterns, and real-time collaboration frameworks.
  • Background in data pipelines, large-scale data processing, Kafka, Trino, Iceberg, or analytics tooling.
  • Experience in CMS development, newsroom engineering, or news vendor applications.
  • Interest in NLP, generative AI, personalization systems, or content quality models.
  • Experience mentoring teammates and shaping engineering culture.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

  • Direct impact on how the world’s most influential newsroom and research organization operates.
  • Close partnerships with journalists and analysts - real users with mission-critical needs.
  • A collaborative, supportive engineering culture across New York, London, and Princeton.
  • Opportunities to work across multiple product areas, from CMS to data platforms to editorial AI.
  • Regular team events, hackathons, cross-Atlantic collaboration, and a thriving community of content-focused engineers.

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