C++ Developer - ALRT team

• Company

  Bloomberg

• Location

  UK-London

• Remuneration

  competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  25-Feb-2013

• eFC Ref no

  1170002

The Role

The London Foundational Applications group is seeking a driven and dedicated developer to join our fast-paced team.

You will use your C++, Javascript and UNIX skills in a multi-threaded environment to provide value-added data and analytical functionality on the Bloomberg Terminal for Traders and Salespeople. Your work will impact tens of thousands of clients a day, working on high performance servers which handle millions of updates daily and publish hundreds of thousands of analytic items.

The team is responsible for all aspects of two popular functions: market data alerts and custom indices. Using your interest in solving business problems will be imperative for this role as well as your desire to take on responsibility and work across all phases of the software development lifecycle. You will be involved in many aspects of development including functional specification, user interface design, backend server development, coding and testing.

Requirements

- Strong C/C++ and excellent problem solving skills are required
- Experience with multi-threaded programming advantageous
- Knowledge of programming with UNIX is desirable
- Finance experience not essential

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.