Senior Software Engineer
Register Your Interest with the FT for our 2020 Senior Software Engineer (Customer Products) - Talent Pool
The Talent team here at the Financial Times are continuously on the lookout for talented, innovative problem solvers to join our Technology team here at the FT.
We might not be actively hiring at your level right now, but if your background is particularly interesting it would be great to have a chat and consider you for upcoming positions later on in the year.
Click Apply Now to register your details for our Senior Engineer (Customer Products) Talent Pool 2020.
About us
The Customer Products group works on our award winning website, iOS and Android apps.
We are a multi-disciplinary, co-located team. We value transparency, accountability, shared responsibility and teamwork. We’re focused on our users and the FT’s mission to provide engaging world-class journalism.
Most Engineers work across the entire stack, although many have expertise with particular technologies and domains, for example client-side, performance, accessibility, building APIs, security and integration. We deploy to production many times a day and have full ownership of releases, the tools we use and site reliability.
What you’ll work on
Develop new features for FT.com and our mobile apps using modern web technologies
Collaborate with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, and UX Designers, contributing ideas to help achieve our company-wide goals
Maintain our high standards for web performance, security and accessibility
Help improve the way we work and the tools we use
Our technology
Here’s a list of things we use a lot. It’s not exhaustive, but gives you a taste of what our stack and tools look like:
Node.js; Heroku; AWS Lambda, Kinesis, and DynamoDB
Elasticsearch; Neo4j; Redis; GraphQL
Handlebars; Sass; Webpack; Preact
Fastly and VCL
Github; CircleCI; Sentry
Graphite; Grafana; Splunk
We don’t expect you to have worked with all of these, it will be a bonus for us if you have worked with some of them.
To find out more you can read about how we route traffic on FT.com and have a look at the code we make public on GitHub. You can also get an insight into how we work from our FT Product & Technology Medium publication.
About you
Your core skill set and expertise is web development and you're enthusiastic about contributing to all parts of the process.
Our ideal candidate will bring a unique point of view to the work that we do. We firmly believe that diverse perspectives help us create a great product and enhance the team.
Characteristics we value
Keen to take action whilst being pragmatic
Attention to detail and common sense
Being collaborative
Enjoy learning and teaching — whether that be pair programming, lightning talks, good documentation, leading workshops or mentoring more junior members of the team
A love of the web, an interest performance and dedication to accessibility
An understanding of design and UX principles
An avoidance of frameworks, to get things done you prefer the tools that are right for the use case and frameworks only where necessary.
Our hiring process
We understand that tech interviews are often stressful for no good reason, so we designed our interview process to be rigorous but friendly. We don’t do whiteboard coding or peer over your shoulder when you’re writing code.
We’re committed to equality and diversity in the tech industry, so we’ll be especially happy to see applications from under-represented backgrounds. We encourage this for example by considering part time roles and flexible working hours as well as tuning the hiring process to promoting diversity.
We have recently published our Engineering Progression framework and associated competencies for a Software Engineer.
What it’s like to work for us
Customer Products has over thirty engineers working in small cross-functional teams with
opportunities to rotate to other teams.
We ensure engineers have the tools they need. People are free to choose the OS and device type that suits them, and we encourage exploration of new tools and techniques. We support informal knowledge sharing alongside more formal training opportunities.
Click Apply Now to register your details for our Senior Engineer (Customer Products) Talent Pool 2020.
Life at the FT
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of one million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community. We have offices in more than 35 cities, including London, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila, Sofia, San Francisco and Tokyo.
Our benefits vary depending on location, but we are committed to providing best in class perks across all our offices as well as an inclusive environment to develop your career. UK benefits include:
25 days paid holiday annually, extending to 30 after two years plus the option of additional flexi-days at 30% pay
Double matched pension contributions up to 12% if you are 44 and under, and up to 16% from age 45 and over
Healthcare and Dental Scheme
Income Protection and Life Assurance
Child Care Vouchers
Season Ticket Loans
Eyecare Vouchers
Cycle to Work Scheme
Paid Volunteer Days
Charity Matching
Flexible Working
Subsidised Gym Membership
Employee Wellbeing Services.
For the best round-up of some of the things you can expect from life at the FT, follow @LifeatFT on Twitter.
Further Information
The FT is committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We also promote flexible working and will consider specific requests around flexibility for all roles where it can be accommodated. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, please contact a member of our HR team who will be happy to help.
Click Apply Now to register your details for our Senior Engineer (Customer Products) Talent Pool 2020.
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