C++ Developer – Infrastructure recruitment
Bloomberg's Application Infrastructure group provides the GUI used by all of Bloomberg's customers and supplies over 1,500 developers with an environment for rapid application development and deployment, supporting real-time display of complex data. We provide developers with components, toolkits, and frameworks necessary for writing high-quality, easy-to-use applications and deploying them to production quickly.
We are seeking a software engineer who has extensive experience in C++ API design, and has a background with a variety of GUI toolkits and platforms, to join our London team of disciplined and creative developers in evolving our infrastructure to decrease time to market for front-end application writers and to improve the UI of Bloomberg's most important products.
Requirements
- Solid experience writing high-performance object-oriented software using the C++ programming language.
- Possess solid understanding of the properties and appropriate use of basic algorithms and data structures, including the STL.
- Solid experience of Windows development with knowledge of Win32, COM, ATL, GDI/GDIPLUS required.
- Familiarity with open source UI toolkits such as GTK or WebKit is beneficial.
- Familiarity with HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript is beneficial.
- Knowledge of scripting languages and source control tools such as Subversion or Git is a plus.
- Basic expose to UNIX development is a benefit.
- No prior financial knowledge is required.
The Company
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.
Bloomberg is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other classification protected by law.
