Senior Engineer, Financial Times
Customer Products Ads Team
Global business publication
Open for applications
Global business publication
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future.
Role
Who you are
- If you know your Constructable Stylesheets from your Proxy constructors, and care about accessibility, performance and user privacy this is a role you’ll relish
- Strong in CSS and Sass
- Experienced with browser APIs
- Comfortable with Node.js
- Able to pick the right programming and architectural patterns in JavaScript and TypeScript
- Your core skill set and expertise is web development and you're 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
- Keen to take action whilst being pragmatic
- Attention to detail and common sense
- Being data-driven, 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
What the job involves
- We have two teams in Customer Products which focus on advertising, along with the related concerns of privacy, consent and compliance
- The Ads & Privacy team delivers flexible, configurable, dynamic ads across mobile and web and lets stakeholders make data-driven 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
- The Ads Growth team is a cross-functional group of product managers, designers, user researchers and engineers who collaborate to validate and develop innovative advertising formats for high-end and luxury brands
- We push technical boundaries to showcase client creatives across video and pictorial formats
- 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
- Develop new features for FT.com and our mobile apps using modern web technologies
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, and UX Designers, contributing ideas to help achieve our company-wide goals
- Maintain our high standards for web performance, security and accessibility
- Help improve the way we work and the tools we use
- Here’s a list of things we use a lot in Customer Products. It’s not exhaustive, but gives you a taste of what our stack and tools look like:
- Node.js; 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 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
Application process
- We understand that tech interviews are often stressful for no good reason, so we designed our interview process to be rigorous but friendly
Our take
Founded in 1888, the FT has grown into one of the world's biggest online and broadsheet economics and business news providers. It has a strong focus on financial journalism and economic analysis, and provides this essential analysis to companies and individuals across the world.
As well as economics and business, the FT also offers sections on opinion, life and arts, how to spend, and more. In 2022, six of its writers won awards in science, data and investment categories, illustrating the breadth and quality of the FT’s journalism.
The company adapts well to changes in the market to maintain its readership. For example, it recently launched a digital hub and weekly newsletter called Cryptofinance to shine a light on the digital asset industry and how innovations are rippling into mainstream finance.
The FT Group employs more than 2300 people worldwide, including 700 journalists in 40 countries. It includes the FT, FT Specialist, and a number of services and joint ventures. FT's focus on providing impartial, high-quality content has gained it a record-paying readership of over a million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions.
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Company benefits
- A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
- Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
- Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
- Pension contribution
- Local health coverage plans
- Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
- Financial wellbeing products and services
Company values
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Trust
- Inclusion
- Subscriber focus
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
John Ridding
(CEO)After studying for a degree in PPE at Oxford, John worked as Chairman of Pearson Asia, as well as editor of the FT in Asia. In 2006, he was appointed CEO of the FT Group.
Roula Khalaf
(Editor)Following a degree at Columbia University and four years at Forbes, Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as Associate Editor and Middle East Editor. Since January 2020, she has served as Editor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Financial Times
Yasir Mirza (Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion)
- D&I annual report
- Reporting pay gaps
- Next generation board
- Employee networks, including Proud FT, FT Embrace, FT Women, FT Families, FT Sustainability, FT Mental Health and FT Access,
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