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This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer to join the FT Specialist group as part of the Product & Technology organisation within FT.
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 cross 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 best practices and to build a modern sustainable technology stack that will underpin the success of the business for years to come.
FT Specialist brings together a portfolio of niche digital publications, including ones with more than 160 years of tradition.
You will have the autonomy to select the tools and technologies you need to build and operate services responsible for FT Specialist 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.
Working in the FT Specialist team you will be responsible for delivering innovative technical solutions as you build and operate world class platforms to grow the Financial Times strategic business models.
We have recently published our Engineering Progression framework and associated competencies for a Software Engineer relevant to this position
We often use these, it's not an exhaustive list but gives you a taste of what our technology stack and tools look like:
JavaScript
React
GraphQL
Node.js
CircleCI
Fastly
Heroku
AWS
Splunk
Work directly with senior stakeholders and product owners to fully shape solutions from inception to deployment and beyond
Provide technical leadership to an engineering team
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 leverage a diverse range of technologies.
Communicate widely within the organisation to ensure best practice in other areas is understood and adopted where it makes sense to do so.
Develop an in-depth understanding of FT Specialist underlying data and data flow.
Good command of written and spoken English
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.
Deep knowledge of at least one programming language
Willingness to move to NodeJS
Cloud infrastructure: (AWS, Heroku, GCP or similar)
Databases, Document stores and search technologies like MySQL, MongoDB or ElasticSearch
Message queues like Kinesis, SQS etc.
Good understanding of the principles and trade-offs of a microservices architecture
Application performance tuning and optimisation.
Understanding of CI and CD delivery pipelines like CircleCI or Jenkins
Designing for fault tolerance
Writing automated unit and end-to-end tests – with best practice in mind – for feature development
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
Experience working within an environment where operational support and monitoring of code and systems is part of the culture (DevOps)
An understanding of CDNs and the role they play is web application architecture. e.g.Fastly, Cloudfront, Akamai etc.
Instrumenting for observability and operability
Understand how to build and maintain APIs
How to design software to support easy scaling using a methodology like the 12 factor app
Being an active member of the broader technology community with an understanding and passion of the current leading trends
Being a leader with solid organisational and time management skills
Anything else?
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