Senior 2 Engineer, Customer Products Ads Team
Senior 2 Engineer, Customer Products Ads Team
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Job Description
About us
The Financial Times is one of the worlds leading news organisations globally recognised for its authority integrity and accuracy with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide.
At the FT curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Together we help audiences stay better informed and deepen their understanding of the world around them.
Our Product & Tech teams drive us forward in an everevolving digital landscape delivering cuttingedge products to over one million digital subscribers daily. Our growth relies on a diverse dedicated and dynamic group of product tech delivery and data specialists.
With a supportive culture entrepreneurial spirit and opportunities at every turn there are no limits to where your FT career can take you.
Build a newsworthy career at the FT.
Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion
We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.
Department Context
The Customer Products group works on our awardwinning website and our iOS and Android apps. We are a multidisciplinary colocated team with around 75 engineers and 100 people total. We value transparency accountability shared responsibility and teamwork. We deploy multiple times a day and were focused on our users and the FTs mission to provide engaging worldclass journalism.
Customer Products sits within FTs Product & Technology function and brings together people from Product Delivery and Technology.
Our Customer Products Ads teams
We have two teams in Customer Products which focus on advertising along with the related concerns of privacy consent and compliance.
Ads & Privacy Team
The Ads & Privacy team delivers flexible configurable dynamic ads across mobile and web and lets stakeholders make datadriven decisions via APIs and observability tools. We use the platform to build everything from web components to browser extensions.
We ensure that our users experience remains performant and that their privacy and consent is respected.
Ads Growth Team
The Ads Growth team is a crossfunctional group of product managers designers user researchers and engineers who collaborate to validate and develop innovative advertising formats for highend and luxury brands.
We push technical boundaries to showcase client creatives across video and pictorial formats.
About The Role
The Ads teams work on challenging UI problems using modern tooling like TypeScript platforms like Astro browser standards like Web Components and testing with Vitest and Playwright.
If you know your Constructable Stylesheets from your Proxy constructors and care about accessibility performance and user privacy this is a role youll relish.
This is a seniorlevel position that will suit someone:
- Strong in CSS and Sass
- Experienced with browser APIs
- Comfortable with
- Able to pick the right programming and architectural patterns in JavaScript and TypeScript
What youll work on
- Develop new features for and our mobile apps using modern web technologies
- Collaborate with Product Owners Delivery Managers and UX Designers contributing ideas to help achieve our companywide goals
- Maintain our high standards for web performance security and accessibility
- Help improve the way we work and the tools we use
Our technology stack
Heres a list of things we use a lot in Customer Products. Its not exhaustive but gives you a taste of what our stack and tools look like:
- ; Heroku; AWS Lambda Kinesis; DynamoDB
- Elasticsearch; Neo4j; Redis; GraphQL; Postgres
- TypeScript; Astro; Web Components; Vitest; Playwright
- Fastly; VCL
- Github; CircleCI
- Open Telemetry; Grafana; Splunk
We dont expect you to have worked with all of these it will be a bonus for us if you have worked with some of them.
About you
Your core skill set and expertise is web development and youre 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 datadriven when it matters
- 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.
Were committed to equality and diversity in the tech industry so well be especially happy to see applications from underrepresented 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 published our Engineering Progression framework and associated competencies for a Senior Software Engineer.
Whats in it for you
Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing bestinclass perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave medical cover inclusive parental leave packages subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here.
Weve embraced a 50% hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging inperson camaraderie and peer learning. Additionally we are open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests for all roles where feasible.
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. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions email and a member of our team will be happy to help.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
