Senior Software Engineer – DataHub Experience & Control Plane

Overview

In this Senior Software Engineer role, you will help design and build the next generation of DataHub, Bloomberg’s data experience layer. You’ll craft full-stack interfaces, APIs, and control-plane systems that enable engineers to discover, understand, access, provision, query, publish, and operate datasets safely at scale. You will shape experiences around data discovery, semantic context, lineage, and AI-assisted workflows. This role blends frontend and backend work with a strong focus on reliability, usability, and developer productivity, in a mission to make data more discoverable and usable for Bloomberg engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build production-grade product experiences for data-oriented engineers
• Design and implement full-stack workflows across React-based interfaces, APIs, and backend services
• Create control-plane systems to simplify complex data infrastructure
• Apply design thinking to workflows to improve UX and reliability
• Shape experiences around data discovery, cataloging, schemas, lineage, and AI-assisted workflows
• Provide product-minded engineering judgment on API design, latency, observability, and safety
• Support data portals, notebooks, query tools, programmable workflows, and agentic interfaces
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to platform direction

Key requirements

• Strong professional software engineering experience building production systems
• Experience building frontend applications with React, Vue, or similar
• Backend experience in Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, or equivalent
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, Linux, networking, APIs, service reliability, or data infrastructure
• Experience owning features or services end-to-end from design to operation
• Product-minded engineering judgment and ability to translate user needs into reliable software
• Good design taste with clear workflows, useful defaults, fast feedback, and safe automation
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience

• design thinking
• strong collaboration
• mentoring
• React or Vue frontend experience
• Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Go backend experience
• distributed systems

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