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Web Application Architect 3

Bloomberg Open · verified Oct 24, 2026
Arlington Full-time Mid-level Engineering Leadership

At a glance

Mid-level Engineering Leadership role at Bloomberg. Arlington · full-time · $150,000–$185,000 base.

SalaryStated by Bloomberg
$150,000 – $185,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from BloombergOur estimate for the market: $110,000–$197,900Median $168,425
The range includes the market median of $168,425 for mid-level engineering leadership roles in Arlington.
Worked out from 8 postings that stated pay, median $168,425. Last updated Oct 24, 2026.
RoleEngineering Leadership
SeniorityMid-level
LocationArlington
EmploymentFull-time
Base pay$150,000–$185,000
PostedJul 31, 2026 · 2mo ago
Role brief

techroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Build and support Tax Provision features spanning React interfaces, TypeScript services and serverless functions
  • Shape team-wide feature plans and cross-team technical work, bringing deep expertise in at least one area
  • Improve system diagnosis and monitoring, and tackle technical problems affecting your team
  • Create tests across unit, integration, end-to-end and performance needs using Jest, Playwright and k6
  • Maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform and AWS SAM, and help evolve APIs, data layers and observability

What you bring

  • A related bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, plus at least five years building commercial software
  • Strong TypeScript and JavaScript skills, with hands-on React and NestJS experience
  • Practical AWS expertise across cloud architecture, serverless systems and infrastructure as code
  • Experience leading project delivery and influencing distributed teams through the software lifecycle
  • Hands-on use of an AI coding assistant, with sound judgment when reviewing generated code

Who this fits

This role suits a self-directed engineer who can guide technical decisions and deliver work both independently and with a team. It is based in Arlington, Virginia.

From the employer

Responsible for complex application design, development, integration, delivery and support. Individual in this position must be a self-directed professional, who will use their expertise to influence teams on best approach with new and existing technologies and programming languages to achieve business goals.

What you will do:

  • Architect, design and deliver high-quality code by promoting and designing INDG best practices. 

  • Solve complex problems in a creative manner in a timely fashion. 

  • Act as the go-to expert in at least one technical area and have a very good working knowledge of the broader architecture of the entire system.

  • Strongly influence the direction on resolving/diagnosing/monitoring systems & platforms.

  • Identify key problems affecting their team and adopt innovative technical solutions to solve them.

  • Design and guide feature design and implementation of features for the entire team and deliver solutions for cross-team initiatives.

  • Participate in cross-business technical reviews.

  • Design and develop scalable, high-availability, high-performance products.

  • Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned. 

  • ​Build and maintain features across the Tax Provision platform — from React microfrontend screens to TypeScript serverless Lambdas, Fastify services, and NestJS applications supporting ASC 740 corporate tax provision calculations.

  • Use AI coding assistants effectively — writing precise prompts, reviewing AI-generated code critically, and applying outputs productively within a large, multi-repo codebase.
  • Write and maintain unit, integration, E2E, and performance tests using Jest, Playwright, and k6.
  • Collaborate with architects and product teams to evolve async job patterns (imports, report generation), calculation service APIs, data layer abstractions, and cross-cutting observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana Faro).

  • Develop, deploy, and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and AWS SAM targeting AWS (Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, RDS/PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Secrets Manager, Route 53, WAF).


You need to have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.  

  • 5 years of software development experience and/or commensurate skills building commercial applications with modern software engineering practices. 

  • Experience completing tasks quickly and efficiently at a production level. 

  • Experience running and taking ownership of a large project deliverables both collaboratively and independently. 

  • Experience reducing the complexity of projects, services, and processes to get more done with less work.

  • A track record of being a strong influencer and thought leader in the full software development life cycle of distributed software delivery teams using Agile/Scrum and DevSecOps practices.

  • Expertise with cloud technologies i.e. AWS, Serverless, Event Driven Architecture, SOA, MicroServices, Microfrontend, CI/CD, Infrastructure as code, and other modern technologies.

  • Strong TypeScript/JavaScript (Node 18+) — the primary language across APIs, Lambdas, business logic, and tooling.
  • Proficiency with React 18 and modern React patterns (hooks, context, query management).
  • NestJS — working with module-based architecture, TypeORM, JWT auth, and Swagger.

  • PostgreSQL — schema management, query optimization, stored procedures, TypeORM migrations.
  • Microfrontend architecture — experience with single-spa or similar composition patterns.
  • MobX / MobX-State-Tree and TanStack React Query for state and server-state management.

  • GitLab CI/CD — pipeline authoring, shared templates, environment management, and security scan integration.
  • Terraform — writing and maintaining AWS infrastructure modules (CloudFront, S3, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, IAM, RDS, WAF, Route 53).
  • Jest (unit + integration), Playwright (E2E), k6 (load/performance).
  • Hands-on experience with one or more AI coding tools: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or equivalent.
  • Ability to use AI assistants effectively within a large, multi-repo codebase — including context management, prompt engineering, and critically evaluating generated output.

Compensation Range:

$150,000.00-$185,000.00

Placement in the salary range will be decided upon completion of the interview process. Salary determination will be determined based on factors including but not limited to relevant experience, demonstrated skills related to the requirements of the role, education, certifications, and geographic location.


Equal Opportunity


Bloomberg Industry Group maintains a continuing policy of non-discrimination in employment. It is Bloomberg Industry Group’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, and the Company is committed to attracting, retaining, developing, and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to 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 maternity/parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law (“Protected Characteristic”). Bloomberg prohibits treating applicants or employees less favorably in connection with the terms and conditions of employment, in all phases of the employment process, because of one or more Protected Characteristics (“Discrimination”).

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