Senior Software Engineer - Visitor Experience, Bloomberg Connects New York, NY Posted today

Bloomberg Connects is a rapidly growing, free platform that helps museums, galleries, and cultural spaces make their institutions, stories and dynamic content more engaging to audiences around the world. Launched in 2019, Connects features multimedia guides with unique content exclusive to each of our over 800 cultural institution partners across 33 countries.

As part of Bloomberg’s culture of giving back, Connects is a joint effort between Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies in support of their work to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people by focusing on five key areas: the arts, education, the environment, government innovation, and public health.

We believe that technology opens doors, and we created Connects as a part of our mission to make art and culture accessible to all—in-person, at-home, and anywhere.

We are a team of designers, researchers, marketers, editors, engineers, and leaders working together to enhance our partner’s capacity to reach audiences around the world and improve their visitor experience. Built through empathy and research, qualitative and quantitative data, and experimentation and iteration, our products seek to delight and empower.

What’s in it for you?

You will contribute to the mobile and web application of the Bloomberg Connects Philanthropies business. With massive platform growth on the horizon, your native and web mobile expertise will have a massive impact on our ability to provide an amazing experience for millions of users around the globe. Additionally there will be many opportunities to expand your skills with other web and mobile technologies as our platform continues to grow.

We'll trust you to:

1. Become part of an established team containing a diverse mix of engineers, as well as dedicated representatives from UX and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Marketing.
2. Be responsible for a highly-diverse technology stack around the Android, iOS platform as well as the app's React front-end layer. The role will expose you to a broad set of languages (Kotlin, Java, Objective-C, Swift, Typescript, Ruby) and tools, and you'll be able to continue to push the boundaries by exploring new technologies as well as improving existing ones.
3. Collaborate effectively: you'll work closely with our back-end partner experience development team to discuss shared concerns and align technical direction, you'll interact heavily with our philanthropy, marketing and UX colleagues who are colocated with the engineering team.
4. Continue to foster a culture of sustained, high-quality delivery through collaboration and effective teamwork.

You'll need to have:

1. 4+ years of professional experience in software development in one of following technologies React, Javascript/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Obj-C, Swift.
2. 2+ years of professional experience building mobile applications (Native Android, iOS, React Native or equivalent Mobile Multi-Platforms).
3. 2+ years of professional experience building web applications (React, NextJs or equivalent web frameworks).
4. A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field/Equivalent Experience.

We’d love to see:

1. Expertise in writing modular and (highly) testable code.
2. Experience partnering with a diverse set of teams including non-engineering stakeholders.
3. A passion for learning new things.
4. A passion for teaching other people what you know, and mentoring less experienced team members.
5. An understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms.
6. An earnest approach to problem-solving, and ability to collaborate with peers, stakeholders and management.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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