About the Team
DataLayer is the bedrock of the Bloomberg Terminal. It is the default reactive high-performance data transformation platform that powers almost every table and chart that users interact with. Trillions of market data updates get processed every day by this software and our customers rely on the real-time calculations being 100% accurate.
Today DataLayer engineering teams are based in London UK and Frankfurt Germany.
The newly created DataLayer Platform team in Pune will take ownership of embedding DataLayer into Bloomberg runtimes providing seamless integration with the Bloomberg Terminal and backend services. This team will work closely with other DataLayer teams and multiple infrastructure teams to ensure DataLayer runs as efficiently and reliably as possible across these environments.
About the Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic hands-on technical leader to lead the DataLayer Platform team in Pune.
Given the depth and complexity of the technical domain this role requires a Team Leader who is highly technical actively involved in engineering and experienced in people leadership. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with Product other DataLayer teams and other engineering stakeholders to shape and execute the teams roadmap. At the same time this is a leadership role with a strong hands-on engineering component where the Team Leader leads by example working alongside the team to design and implement robust high-quality solutions.
To set the successful candidate up for long-term success the role will begin with a strong individual contributor focus for the first 6 months. During this period the candidate will work directly on DataLayer projects build deep familiarity with the technical domain understand the surrounding Bloomberg runtimes and infrastructure and establish strong working relationships with the existing DataLayer teams in London and Frankfurt.
After this ramp-up period the role is expected to transition into a formal Team Leader position with responsibility for people leadership technical direction roadmap execution and close collaboration with Product and engineering stakeholders.
You will need to have
- Deep understanding of C and practical experience using modern language features.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design data structures and algorithms.
- Strong design judgment particularly in building robust reusable libraries and infrastructure.
- Hands-on engineering experience with the ability to guide technical direction through direct contribution.
- Proven experience collaborating with Product and other engineering teams.
- Proven experience leading an engineering team.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- A strong sense of ownership.
Wed Love to See
- Experience using AI tools for development debugging and troubleshooting.
- Experience working on complex infrastructure systems under continuous use.
- Experience with performance optimization and a passion for writing performance-critical code.
- Experience designing developing and operating large-scale service-oriented systems.
- Understanding of writing multi-threaded code.
- Some experience with JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Exposure to multiple phases of the software development life cycle.
Whats in It for You
Bloombergs platform services teams are involved in many collaborative engineering efforts across the company. Many of us contribute to internal and external technical communities conferences and organizations.
You will have the opportunity to work with infrastructure teams across Bloomberg and engage with open-source projects used throughout our software development and deployment stack. This role also offers the chance to help establish a new team in Pune while working on critical infrastructure that powers core Bloomberg Terminal workflows.
If this sounds like you:
Apply if you think were a good match. Well get in touch to let you know what the next steps are but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this:
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