The Role:

Do you have a passion for making a positive impact in society? Do you want to leverage your skills to build products which give people the power to build communities? On the Philanthropy Engineering team at Bloomberg, you will get a unique opportunity to build products to engage our global workforce for philanthropic activities. Our employees are core to our success, and we're striving to provide a unique and personalized experience for them to engage in philanthropic activities.

The corporate Philanthropy & Engagement program at Bloomberg inspires the next generation of leaders through a diverse range of mentoring and education initiatives. Bloomberg Philanthropies’ unique data-driven approach to global change grows out of Mike Bloomberg’s experience as an entrepreneur and a champion of innovation.

What we do:

We build and manage a suite of products using a combination of third party cloud software and in house technologies to scale to meet the demands of global employees & the philanthropy administrative teams.
Our goal is to improve the velocity of operations and admin teams by enhancing the self-service tools and giving them more control. We value high quality user experience while being passionate about DevX and working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment collaborating with exceptional people.

We’ll trust you to:

•  Leverage your technical expertise to architect and implement critical solutions
•  Work collaboratively within the team and across functional areas to drive design and implementation of new product features, from inception through to production

You'll need to have:

•  3+ years of coding experience in Python, JavaScript and an interest to learn new languages
•  Experience with web services API integration (REST or SOAP)
•  Experience with SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL databases
•  Strong communication skills
•  Passion for solving problems for end users
•  BA, BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related technology field

We'd love to see:

•  Experience in designing and building successful customer facing applications
•  Experience in ReactJS
•  Familiarity with GraphQL, Redis and Kafka
•  Familiarity with Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban, using Jira