The team of 20 will be led there by Philip Su, a social maketting Facebook engineers who they worked on integrating Skype with the social networking.
Other members of this team include the developers responsible for Facebook's App Centre, Timeline and Tickers.
Facebook began searching for British recruities in th emonth of July and said that the first of those who were presently on a six-week "boot camp" at the social network's California headquarters.
When he announced the new office earlier this year Su said it would "focus on their building products in key areas like mobile and platform developemnt". Mobile is a key area for Facebook life, which admitted before its stock market flotation in May that it was struggling it to make money from mobile, even as its members spent more of their time on mobile platforms and more.
George Osborne, the Chancellor, welcomed the new office as the vote of confidence for Britain as " the technology hub for Europe". Speaking at the opening, he said: "It is fantastic that Facebook, one of the world's leading technology companies, has chosen London as its first major engineering hub outside the US."
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He added that the new office demonstrated the "attractiveness of London, its culture, its infrastructure and its people ".
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