Senior Software Engineer - FT Specialist
- Employer
- Financial Times
- Location
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 14 Sep 2024
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- Sector
- Technology
- Role
- Senior Executive
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Here at the FT, gold-standard journalism is just the beginning. 500-people strong, our Product and Tech team keeps us ahead of the constantly evolving digital world by delivering innovative products to over one million digital subscribers every day. Our growth plans 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.
About FT Specialist
A key part of the business, providing significant revenue and contribution to the FT, is Specialist Titles. This is an exciting time for Specialist Titles as we are creating a large new multi-functional product & technology team in Sofia to support the needs of this part of the business.
FT Specialist is entering a new era. We have a golden opportunity to renew our technology estate, to use standard processes and to build a modern sustainable technology stack that will underpin the success of the business for years to come.
This role will be right for you if you are happy to:
- Help with technical decision-making to support the technology strategy
- Aid and support personal development of more junior team-members
- Develop and maintain an understanding of the business domains within FT Specialist. Use that understanding to shape the development of the platforms you build.
- Work within the department's strategy and guardrails, and contribute to their ongoing refinement.
- Have a practical approach to working with a large portfolio of products that bring to bear a diverse range of technologies.
- Communicate widely within the organisation to ensure standard process in other areas is understood and adopted where it makes sense to do so.
Essential skills and experience
- Extensive experience using the wide range of technologies and patterns required to build modern web products and services along with the tools that enable their creation. From CDNs, networking, cloud infrastructure and databases through to performance tuning and optimisation.
- Extensive current experience in either frontend development with CSS, Javascript and React or backend with NodeJS or PHP
- Experience with the tooling, monitoring, and engineering that enables highly fault tolerant systems in cloud environments.
- Writing automated unit and end-to-end tests - with best practice in mind - for feature development
- Ability to clearly reason about and articulate reasoning behind technical trade-offs (e.g. red/blue technical debt)
- Able to balance the customer and business product needs with those needed to build high quality products.
- Understand the importance of diversity and equality in a well functioning team
- Be able to communicate clearly and concisely
Desirable skills and experience
- An understanding of modern front-end development
- Have built software using the 12 factor methodology
- You have an understanding of design and UX principles.
- Understanding of web technologies, their strengths and weaknesses, and their impact on users in performance and accessibility.
- Instrumenting for observability and operability
Benefits
- Annual bonus scheme
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
- 25 days annual paid leave
- Private Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Parental 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.)
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace
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 believe that a supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves at work and have the flexibility they need to meet their personal needs.
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 talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help.
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