Senior Software Engineer - FT Professional

About FT Product & Technology

Here at the FT, gold-standard journalism is just the beginning. 500-people strong, our Product and Tech team keeps us ahead of the ever-changing digital landscape by delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers every day. Our plans for growth 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.

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About FT Professional

As part of the Financial Times, one of the world's most respected brands and news sources, we at FT Professional work to help our customers get more from Financial Times journalism through additional resources, curated news, and action-oriented tools.

As part of our Professional products portfolio, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with tracking record collaborating with Product, Design and Research to build new products.

This role is focused on developing a range of bespoke products that are only sold as additional features to the FT.com subscription and only available to FT Professional readers. The projects include:

• Monetary Policy Radar, a paid-for content and data hub for investors covering monetary policy.
• Advanced Sharing, an extra allowance for companies to promote FT content without the paywall.
• New product ideas coming from our user research that are not yet published in the market.

This role will be right for you if:

• You consider yourself a Product Engineer, and is prepared to take a pivotal role in the development of the next suite of products the Financial Times offers to its corporate customers.
• You want to work in a truly empowered, cross-functional product team guided by agile principles - and be motivated by building products that help people analyse, understand, and connect around the most important issues affecting the world today.
• You have an understanding of modern full-stack development (native Javascript, CSS, Node.js, etc.)
• You covered the entire software development life-cycle in previous projects, from architecture to code, testing, continuous deployment, monitoring and maintenance.
• You have an interest in learning and using the wide range of technologies and patterns required to build modern web products and services e.g. CDNs, networking, cloud infrastructure and databases
• You are aware of and know how to mitigate security threats, and the importance of developing tooling, monitoring, and engineering that enables highly fault tolerant systems in cloud environments.
• You know how to be pragmatic when necessary and take into consideration the input from your peers and users.
• You enjoy the collaboration with Product Managers, UX designers, Data Analysts and User Researchers to improve and polish our products.
• You will be an active member to shape the culture of our team, promote knowledge sharing with your peers, and mentor other engineers.
• You understand the importance of diversity and equality in a well functioning team.

In return, we'll give you:

• Interesting tech where your input is valued in both product and technical choices
• A good work / life balance and rewarding work environment
• Motivated, smart, kind colleagues you can learn from

Our technology

Here’s a list of things we use a lot. It’s not exhaustive, but gives you a taste of what our stack and tools look like:

• JavaScript (Typescript)
• React (JSX); Sass; Next.js
• Jest/Playwright
• Postgres/DynamoDB
• Fastly
• CircleCI 

While we don’t expect you to have worked with all of these, it will be a bonus for us if you have worked with some of them.

At the FT we keep a public matrix of competencies for each engineering level, this role is for a Senior Software Engineer and you can see the competencies expected from you here.

What’s 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.

We’ve 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 talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help.

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