Company Intro

Here at the The Financial Times, gold-standard journalism is just the beginning. 500-people strong, our Product and Tech team keeps us ahead of the ever-changing digital landscape by delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers every day. Our plans for growth rely on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists - everyone’s welcome in this friendly, forward-thinking team. And with entrepreneurial spirit, intelligence and opportunity at every turn, there’s no limits to where your FT career will take you.

Learn more about the FT, including announcements and career opportunities, at aboutus.ft.com.

Position Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer to join the FT Core group as part of the Product &

Technology organisation within FT.

 

FT Core brings together key digital assets like:

  • Content and Metadata - enabling content publishing, smart metadata annotations, content discoverability and delivery in various forms and formats.
  • Search and Recommendation - offering end user search, recommendation and insights APIs bridging the gap between content and user data.
  • Print and Digital Subscriptions - powering a seamless subscription/payments and the whole newspaper distribution customer journeys
  • Access and Identity - enabling several authorization and authentication mechanisms as well as a powerful access decision engine
  • Data Platform - enabling storing, processing and getting insights from readership data

 

You will have the autonomy to select the tools and technologies you need to build and operate services responsible for FT brand critical capabilities. Someone who is comfortable with the ever changing technical landscape and is keen to contribute to the company’s processes and broader know-how would thrive in this role.

The Access & Identity team as the name implies is responsible for two sets of capabilities - deciding whether to give access to content in different FT domains and supporting a set of different authorisation and authentication APIs as well as different functionalities regarding our B2B customers, GDPR deletion flows and users' profiles.

You will be responsible for delivering innovative technical solutions as you build and operate world class platforms. You will have the autonomy, within defined guard rails, to select the tools and technologies you need to build and operate services.

We have recently published our Engineering Progression framework and associated competencies for a Software Engineer relevant to this position.

 

Tech Stack

We often use these, it's not an exhaustive list but gives you a taste of what our technology stack and tools look like:

  • Go Lang
  • Node.js
  • Kubernetes (EKS)
  • AWS
  • GraphQL
  • Cron and kubernetes jobs
  • CircleCI
  • DynamoDB
  • Kafka

 

Role Responsibilities

  • Work directly with product managers and senior stakeholders to fully shape solutions from inception to deployment and beyond
  • Work within a team of engineers in an agile delivery team
  • Design and implement low maintenance, well monitored, secure and scalable solutions, from cradle to grave
  • Understand and play an active part in designing the architecture, tooling and release cycle processes used by the engineering teams across Product & Technology
  • Contribute to company-wide processes, frameworks and guidelines
  • Develop a close relationship with our customers and provide operational support

 

Candidate Profile

Essential

  • Highly proficient in Go or Node.js (and willing to learn the other language)
  • Has a track record of delivering well engineered solutions using current technologies and best practices such as SOLID, TDD, CI/CD and pair programming
  • An active member of the broader technology community with an understand of current leading trends
  • Experience working as part of an Agile delivery team, using methodologies like Scrum and Kanban
  • Good understanding of the principles and trade-offs of a microservices architecture
  • Good working experience of at least one cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
  • Good SQL knowledge
  • Comfortable working in a Linux environment
  • Being able to establish and be promoter of good coding and engineering practices
  • Being able to architect and lead the development of solutions based on functional requirements
  • Being able to mentor other team members

Desirable

  • Experience in an environment where operational support and monitoring of code and systems is part of the culture (DevOps)
  • Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
  • Ability to accurately monitor and analyse system performance using tools like Grafana
  • Holds an industry certification in a key platform, tool or domain used within Engineering at the FT. This could be any relevant certification but currently we are recommending it's an AWS Associate certificatе

 

In Return, We Can Offer You

  • Annual bonus scheme
  • 25 days annual paid leave
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave policy
  • Food Vouchers
  • Multisport Card
  • Work-life balance and work from home practice
  • Both in house and external training programs
  • Your own training dedicated budget (for conferences, courses etc.)

 
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The Financial Times Ltd. committed to equality of opportunity. We are determined to create a diverse group at all levels of our Company and we welcome all members of the community we serve to apply for openings with us.

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