C Developer with Unix recruitment
Bloomberg is looking for a dedicated and driven software developer to join their Application Infrastructure team. The candidate should have strong technical and programming skills, excellent problem solving skills and an appreciation for the scope and impact of their highly visible work. The team is responsible for building the software infrastructure to support Bloomberg's core products. This includes real-time market data streams, proprietary database systems, information-retrieval engines ('autocomplete'), communication libraries and much more. Day to day tasks involve development and integration of next generation features and working on projects to improve the scalability of new and existing technology.
Qualifications:
- C development experience is essential, as is exposure to the full software development life cycle
- Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Must have expertise in programming in UNIX/Linux
- Working knowledge of development tools such as debuggers, profilers and tracing utilities
- Experience with IPC including sockets
- Hands on multithreading experience, preferably specifically with Posix Threads
- Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills, with a logical and pragmatic attitude
Other desirable skills include:
- C++ development experience
- Scripting experience, e.g. Perl, Python or Korn shell
- Java and JavaScript
- Compiler and linkers experience
- Knowledge of database engines
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.
