Senior Software Engineer

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. Here youre given the chance to reach millions create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world.

In our warm collaborative culture youll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth career aspirations and wellbeing.

Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and inspire you. With no fixed path youll discover new skills and forge a career that can take you anywhere.

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.

The Role

The Customer Products group works on our award winning website iOS and Android are a multi-disciplinary team based in London UK and Sofia Bulgaria. We value transparency accountability shared responsibility and teamwork. Were focused on our users and the FTs mission to provide engaging world-class journalism.

Most Engineers work across the entire stack although many have expertise with particular technologies and domains for example client-side performance accessibility building APIs security and integration. We deploy to production many times a day and have full ownership of releases the tools we use and site reliability.

What youll work on

• Define and maintain service templates golden paths and internal developer tooling that reduce cognitive load and accelerate product build and operate shared platforms and services that product teams depend on (e.g. CI/CD pipelines deployment infrastructure observability service meshes feature flagging).
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to understand their pain points gather requirements and deliver platform capabilities that solve real problems.
• Own the reliability and scalability of platform services including on-call responsibilities incident response and capacity planning.
• Establish and champion engineering standards for infrastructure-as-code configuration management security and cost optimisation.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party tools and cloud services making pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions.
• Contribute to platform roadmap planning and communicate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers conducting code reviews and fostering a culture of operational excellence.

Our technology

Heres a list of things we use a lot. Its not exhaustive but gives you a taste of what our stack and tools look like:

• Typescript; ; AWS ECS; AWS Lambda Kinesis and DynamoDB
• Elasticache; GraphQL
• Handlebars; Sass; Webpack; Preact
• Cloudflare Workers; Terraform
• Github; CircleCI; Cloudsmith
• OpenTelemetry; 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.

To find out more you can read about how we route traffic on and have a look at the code we make public on GitHub. You can also get an insight into how we work from our FT Product & Technology Medium publication.

About you

• 4 years of professional software engineering experience across the stack. Some experience in a platform infrastructure or DevOps-focused role is a bonus.
• Strong proficiency in Javascript and/or Typescript.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) including networking IAM compute and managed services.
• Hands-on experience with containers infrastructure-as-code (Terraform Pulumi or similar) and CI/CD tooling.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: service discovery load balancing message queues caching and observability (metrics logs traces).
• A product mindset: you think of other engineers as your customers and obsess over developer experience.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across teams without direct authority.
• A bias towards automation self-service and reducing toil.
• A willingness to leverage advancements in AI-assisted coding to improve personal productivity and operational toil.

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

• Action-oriented and pragmatic
• Strong problem solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Being collaborative
• Enjoy learning

Whats in it for you Our benefits

Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class 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 in-person 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.

Further information

At the FT we embrace innovation and the use of technology and appreciate that individuals may leverage AI tools as part of their job application process. Whilst we are happy for you to use AI to assist with your application it is essential that all information provided is authentic and accurately represents your skills experience and qualifications.

Candidates should be aware that the use of AI throughout the application process may be monitored to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process for all.