About FT Product & Technology

Here at the FT, 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.

As part of our growth journey, the FT is expanding into new products to support our existing business and consumer audiences. This includes professional development and education, RegTech and data-driven insights, and supporting communities of practice - from start-up to corporation. We’re looking for a technology leader to join our team, inspire our engineers and own the end-to-end development of cutting-edge products.

 

Department Overview

The role is par of our Community Team that takes care of some of the most important Events businesses integrations and has the really interesting challenge on how we can connect our audiences and by doing that we cross-sell our subscription businesses with events, trainings and form a new community platform.

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.

 

Position Summary 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Principal Engineer to join the Community Team as part of the Product & Technology organisation within FT.

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 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:

  • AWS, Node.js, SASS or Less, GraphQL, Heroku, Webpack, Rollup, Parcel

 

Main Duties and 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

  • Lead a team of engineers

 

Essential skills and experience

  • Object oriented programming knowledge.

  • Good understanding of the fundamentals of front end development. This includes knowledge of html, Javascript and CSS. We do not use any particular framework on the front-end, but rather want you to have a good understanding of the Web APIs.

  • Hands-on experience with CSS pre-processors is a plus and we do not have a preference for SASS or Less (we are using SASS).

  • In-depth knowledge of Javascript will be something that we expect from you because we are making use of Node.js as a preferred runtime for our server-side code. It is good to know that most of our pages are server-side rendered and not bootstrapped on the client.ex

  • Experience with module bundlers such as Webpack, Rollup, and Parcel.

  • Good understanding of what are the different attack vectors and how to mitigate them in order to produce secure software.

  • Understanding how applications are deployed - this includes the API layer, DBs and FE.

  • Understanding of how to properly scale, maintain, secure and operationalise the application that you have worked on.

  • Understanding of how to monitor your application stack and to alert in case of problem.

  • Good understanding of how to track performance problems, both client-side and on the backend, and to put in place solutions to mitigate them.

  • Knowledge of using a content delivery network (CDN), if you have experience with fastly, cloudfront, cloudflare or any other CDN provider will be considered a plus.

  • Hands-on experience in designing or working with distributed systems. A good understanding of the notable differences between a monolith application and microservice architecture.

  • Integrations with third-party systems.

  • Has extensive experience with stakeholder communication.

  • Has extensive experience in leading engineering teams.

  • Worked with 3rd party integrations.

 

Desirable skills and experience 

  • 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

  • Experience with any cloud providers - we are working with AWS and Heroku, but will consider a plus experience with any other cloud provider.

  • Experience with setting up SSO integrations.

 

Our Social Package includes

  • 25 days paid leave
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
  • Life Insurance (after first 6 months)
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave policy
  • Food Allowance
  • 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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