Financial Times (FT) moved to Sofia one more of its key teams in the field of development of technologies and products. The new department FT Specialist will develop in Sofia digital products for well-known brands of FT as Investor Chronicle, fDi Intelligence and The Banker. By the end of the year, there will be 30 new positions for software engineers, product managers, business analyzers and designers opened.
The team will be accommodated in the office of FT in the Bulgarian capital that officially opened at the beginning of 2019 with the department FT Core. FT Core supports the platforms and systems of FT.com. Among them are the subscription software, data domains, content publishing and distribution, etc.
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations with more than 900 thousand subscribers across print and digital products. It provides a broad range of services, including news, comments, data, and analyses.
Sofia was selected due to its location and fast access to Financial Times’s head office in London, as well as for its technology talent pool.