ABOUT US

The Financial Times is one of the world’s 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. Together, we help audiences stay better informed and deepen their understanding of the world around them.
Our Product & Tech teams drive us forward in an ever-evolving digital landscape, delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers daily. Our growth relies on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists.
With a supportive culture, entrepreneurial spirit and opportunities at every turn, there are no limits to where your FT career can take you.
Build a newsworthy career at the FT.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Core skill set and expertise in web development, with enthusiasm for contributing to all parts of the process.
• Action-oriented and pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Collaborative mindset and enjoyment of learning.
• Passion for performance and accessibility, as well as a deep understanding of design and UX principles.
• Ability to work without heavy reliance on frameworks, preferring tools that are good enough for the use case.

BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCE WITH SOME OF THE FOLLOWING TECHNOLOGIES:

• Node.js, Heroku, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB
• Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Redis, GraphQL
• Handlebars, Sass, Webpack, Preact
• Fastly and VCL
• Github, CircleCI, Sentry
• Graphite, Grafana, Splunk
  To find out more you can read about how we route traffic on FT.com 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.

THE ROLE

The Customer Products group works on our award-winning website, iOS and Android apps.
We are a multi-disciplinary, co-located team. We value transparency, accountability, shared responsibility, and teamwork.
We’re focused on our users and the FT’s 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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.