Senior 2 Engineer, Customer Products Ads Team

Financial Times; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 40 000 - 80 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Senior Engineer in the Customer Products Ads Team. This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative web and mobile applications, ensuring a seamless user experience while respecting privacy and consent. Collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers, product managers, and designers to push technical boundaries and develop engaging advertising formats. With a supportive culture that values diversity and inclusion, this position allows you to thrive in a hybrid working environment, balancing in-person collaboration with remote flexibility. Embrace the chance to make a significant impact in the digital landscape.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Medical cover

Inclusive parental leave packages

Subsidised gym memberships

Opportunities to give back to the community

Qualifications

• Strong in CSS and Sass, comfortable with Node.js.
• Experience in developing features for web and mobile applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features for FT.com and mobile apps using modern web technologies.
• Collaborate with teams to maintain high standards for web performance and security.

Skills

CSS

Sass

Node.js

Web Performance

Accessibility

Tools

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

Fastly

GitHub

CircleCI

Job description

Senior 2 Engineer, Customer Products Ads Team

EMEA

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.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.

Department Context

The Customer Products group works on our award-winning website and our iOS and Android apps . We are a multi-disciplinary, co-located team with around 75 engineers and 100 people total. We value transparency, accountability, shared responsibility, and teamwork. We deploy multiple times a day, and we’re focused on our users and the FT’s mission to provide engaging world-class journalism.

Customer Products sits within FT’s Product & Technology function and brings together people from Product, Delivery, and Technology.

Our Customer Products Ads teams

We have two teams in Customer Products which focus on advertising, along with the related concerns of privacy, consent and compliance.

Ads & Privacy Team

We ensure that our users’ experience remains performant and that their privacy and consent is respected.

Ads Growth Team

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.

About The Role

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.

This is a senior-level position that will suit someone:

• Strong in CSS and Sass
• Comfortable with Node.js

What you’ll work on

• 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
• 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.

About you

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.

Characteristics we value

• Keen to take action whilst being pragmatic
• Attention to detail and common sense
• Being data-driven, when it matters
• 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.

Our hiring process

We understand that tech interviews are often stressful for no good reason, so we designed our interview process to be rigorous but friendly.

We’re committed to equality and diversity in the tech industry, so we’ll be especially happy to see applications from under-represented backgrounds. We encourage this for example by considering part time roles and flexible working hours as well as tuning the hiring process to promoting diversity.

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, [e-mail] and a member of our team will be happy to help.

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