Senior Software Engineer – Launchpad

The Bloomberg Terminal provides access to over 10,000 applications that power global financial markets. Launchpad is the workspace product that brings these applications together into cohesive, customizable environments used daily by analysts, traders, and investors around the world.

The Launchpad team is part of the Application Frameworks group in Bloomberg Engineering. The mission of Application Frameworks is to deliver a seamless, industry-aligned, and fully-supported application platform that enables a delightful Terminal experience.  

We are responsible for the platform that enables composable desktop workflows inside the Terminal. Our team sits between infrastructure, internal application developers, and end users. We design and evolve the runtime, APIs, and workspace infrastructure that make window management, inter-application communication, shared state, and persistence feel seamless and reliable at scale.

What’s in it for you

You’ll work on one of the most widely used products in the Terminal while helping modernize a large, mature desktop platform. This role offers the opportunity to influence runtime architecture, engineer distributed systems, and the long-term technical direction of a system that underpins thousands of applications. You’ll operate at platform scale with visibility across teams that define the Terminal experience.

Our Team

Launchpad owns the application platform that allows clients to build and maintain composable workspaces. We contribute to and extend in-house client and server-side runtime environments to create a faster, more resilient, and feature-rich Terminal experience.

Our work spans performance-sensitive backend services, client-side application logic, runtime architecture, and developer-facing APIs. We partner closely with engineers building the desktop runtime platform, UI toolkit engineers, and backend infrastructure teams to deliver a cohesive foundation for the Terminal. We also collaborate with internal application developers, as well as UX and Product partners, to turn platform capabilities into intuitive, high-impact workflows.

We’ll trust you to:

• Design and evolve the desktop application runtime and workspace infrastructure
• Build and maintain APIs that enable secure communication and shared state across applications
• Re-architect legacy components to operate on modern, horizontally scalable runtimes
• Partner with infrastructure and application framework teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end platform capabilities
• Drive technical design discussions and influence long-term architectural direction

You’ll need to have:

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a non memory managed language such as C or C++
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience
• Strong understanding of system design and the ability to reason deeply about complex distributed systems

We’d love to see:

• Experience modernizing large, mature software platforms
• Experience building scalable, low-latency distributed systems
• Experience working across both client and server-side systems
• Experience with using JavaScript and TypeScript f