About the Role
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.
•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 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.
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:
•Java/Spring Boot
•Go Lang
•Kubernetes (EKS)
•AWS
•GraphQL
•CircleCI
•DynamoDB
•Kafka
•Cloudflare
•Prometheus/Grafana/Splunk
The 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 have a friendly system design exercise and a set of questions to encourage you to tell us about your strengths and what makes you happy at work. 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 by considering flexible working hours as well as tuning the hiring process to promote diversity.
Requirements
•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
•Minimum 5 years of proven project-based experience of building and maintaining distributed systems
•Highly proficient in Java or/and Go (preferable Java)
•Has a track record of delivering well engineered solutions using current technologies and best practices such as SOLID, TDD, CI/CD and pair programming
•Being able to cover non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, high availability, monitoring and security
•Proof of designing and building RESTful APIs
•An active member of the broader technology community with an understanding of current leading trends
•Experience working as part of an Agile delivery team, using methodologies like Scrum and Kanban
•Experience with Spring
•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/NoSQL knowledge
•Comfortable working in a Linux environment
•Comfortable working with code assisting AI tools such as Codex
•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
•Conducting comprehensive and impactful code reviews
•Being able to mentor other team members
•Good command of written and spoken English
•Experience in an environment where operational support and monitoring of code and systems is part of the culture (DevOps)
•Experience in building live systems with a high traffic/load
•Ability to accurately monitor and analyse system performance using tools like Grafana/Splunk
•Ability to troubleshoot and cope with live incidents
•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 certificate
Benefits
•Annual bonus scheme
•25 days paid leave
•24/7 Employee Assistance Program
•Life Insurance
•Enhanced Parental Leave policy
•Food Allowance
•Multisport Card
•Both in house and external training programs
•Your own training dedicated budget (for conferences, courses etc.)
Accessibility
We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview.
