Senior Software Engineer, Financial Times
FT Professional
2-3 days a week in office
Global business publication
Open for applications
Global business publication
1001+ employees
Open for applications
2-3 days a week in office
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
- 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
- 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: avaScript (Typescript), React (JSX); Sass; Next.js, JJest/Playwright, Postgres/DynamoDB, Fastly, CircleCI
What the job involves
- 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
Salary benchmarks
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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