In FT Tech we develop products like FT.com, our award-winning website and one of the fastest news sites in the world. We are firm supporters of open source and develop more and more of our projects in the open every day. Some of our most widely used OSS are Polyfill.io and Origami.
We are hundreds of engineers, but our teams are small, self-governing and multi-disciplined, empowered to choose our own tech stack and to continuously deploy our software, sometimes hundreds of times a day.
Our projects are widely varied in scale and scope -- you could choose to work on anything from an internal bot with a couple of hundred users, to a system with 4.2 billion requests per month -- using microservices, machine learning, augmented reality, and more.
Our ideal candidate will bring a unique point of view to the work we do. We don't hire for team fit, we hire for team betterment; diverse perspectives help us build a great product, and even better teams.
You can read more about us or catch up on the latest from our teams in our Product & Tech Blog.
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We firmly believe that the success of our products and teams is strictly tied to the success of our people. In FT Tech we invest in you as an individual at every step of your career, supporting your professional growth as well as your personal development.
Most engineers that move into senior tech leadership positions in FT Technology every year have started out in more junior roles. Throughout their FT careers they鈥檝e acquired not just the technical skills required for complex new challenges, but also the professional and social skills to support the development of newer junior members.
As part of FT Tech you will have access to all of the support and tools you need to have a successful, growing career with us, as well as those you may want to leverage to support the growth of others around you.
You will also have the opportunity and our support to attend (and speak at, if you鈥檙e inclined) world-renowned tech conferences to further develop your skills every year. Furthermore, you鈥檒l have access to fully funded professional certifications, internal and external workshops and tech talks.
We are passionate about building technical solutions to ultimately enable the highest quality of journalism. As a team we believe trusted high quality journalism plays an important role in a post-truth, post-fact world.
We are a vibrant and diverse group of people from different backgrounds, and with different interests outside of tech. There are over 2,200 employees across our offices (London, Sofia, New York, Manila, Tokyo, Hong Kong), and we are deeply committed to furthering equality and diversity, not just in our organization, but in the wider tech industry. FT is part of the Tech Talent Charter, where we have committed to reaching gender parity within the Product & Technology department by 2022.
We make it our priority to provide the most flexible conditions for everyone, including flexible working hours, the capacity to work from home when needed, part-time flexibility for almost all our roles (from junior to director), a 35-hour work week, 10% time and more.
We have very active communities which you are welcome to participate in such as FT Women, FT Embrace (our BAME network), Proud FT, and ad-hoc social events such as regular board games and quiz nights, netball, rounders and football.
Our team is Internal Products, one of the five FT Technology Groups. Our mission is to enable our peers (in tech and beyond) to do their best work. We do this in a variety of ways: finding a team the right tool for the job, helping them automate the most tedious parts of their work so they can invest in the valuable tasks they truly care about, discovering new ways in which to bring value to the business, and more.
We are made up of the following feature teams in 2020:
Data Engineering
The Data engingineering team work closely with the Data Science and Analytics teams to provide APIs and other capabilities that enable the rest of FT engineering to use these data insights in a streamlined way
Editorial Technology
Develop a set of modern applications for our Editorial staff to author, edit and publish thousands of news articles every week
Marketing Technology
This team looks after the technical ecosystem that supports our Marketing teams, including our email platform serves the roughly 8 million emails that are sent every week to our customers who subscribe to our content.
DevX
Our developer experience team are constantly finding ways to make the work of the rest of our engineers easier and more satisfying.
CRM Technology
Our CRM Team look after our Salesforce platform and the different applications used by our Sales teams.
People Tech
Builds and orchestrates systems that handle staff data at the FT, including our HR systems
More on what it's like to work in Internal Products and a video about working at the FT.
We have roles available from Junior Engineer to Principal Engineer in Internal Products (IP). Most roles rotate between several IP teams over the course of their first 12-18 months. Principal Engineers typically look after one or two of those teams. Senior engineers often lead them or projects within them.
Most of our dev work happens in Node, but you don't need specific experience in JS to join us. We believe programming skills are highly transferable. Are you proficient in another programming language and want to switch to node? Join us! We'll support you in the transition in any role.
Our career progression is public and we have vacancies in all of the levels for 2020:
As a Junior Engineer you are getting started in your engineering career. You may have finished a coding bootcamp, apprenticeship, university, another junior role, or just switched careers. You are eager to grow your learning of software development. You enjoy solving problems with code as part of a wider technical team. You tackle well-defined software features and iterate your implementation with the support of your team.
Engineer (Apply)
As an Engineer you are proficient in the technical systems that you are working on. You are aware and guided by the wider context of your work. You enjoy taking responsibility for your work and own your personal development. You work as part of a team to achieve the shared goals of the team.
Senior 1 Engineer (Apply)
As a Senior 1 engineer you improve the performance of those around you. This could be through official responsibilities such as line managing or tech leading, or through unofficial means such as mentoring or regular pairing. As a S1 engineer you enjoy tackling complex technical problems, and articulating your approach to your team. You thrive on being responsible for work outside of your immediate delivery team and manage that work effectively against your team鈥檚 priorities. Your require very little oversight beyond high level direction.
Senior 2 Engineer (Apply)
As a Senior 2 engineer you are known for your leadership and influence well beyond yourself. This influence could be through tech leading, line managing, mentoring, or leading projects outside of your day-to-day work. As a Senior 2 engineer, you thrive on seeing ill-defined or difficult projects through to completion. You are great at spotting issues and helping your team navigate them. You also have a deep technical understanding and willingness to help others for a particular technology or product.
Principal Engineer (Apply)
As a Principal Engineer in Internal Products you oversee one or two of our feature teams and collaborate with your fellow Principal Engineers and Tech Director in setting our wider tech and people strategy. Your day-to-day involves a combination of engineering management, people development, building relationships across disciplines, software architecture, coding, internal public speaking, stakeholder management, recruitment and more. You thrive on finding the optimal balance between those responsibilities while playing to your strengths and those of your peers and reports.
We understand that tech interviews are often stressful for no good reason, so we designed our interview process to be rigorous but friendly (we won鈥檛 expect you to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard or peer over your shoulder when you鈥檙e writing code). We鈥檙e committed to furthering equality and diversity in the tech industry, so we鈥檒l be especially happy to see applications from underrepresented backgrounds.
All of our employees, regardless of contract status, enjoy flexible working hours, including the possibility to work from home when needed.
Benefits of our permanent roles also include:
- Work-life balance: Flexible hours. Work from home until December 2021 (or further, if it's still not safe to come to the office by then)
- 25 days holiday increases to 30 days after 2 years
- Triple pension: For every 拢1 you put towards your pension the FT put 拢2, up to 6% of your salary (8% over 45). (This has modified to be single-matching for 2020 and back to tripple from 2021)
- Conference, travel and training budget. We frequently attend and often sponsor conferences like JSConfEU, LeadDev, FFConf...
- Friendly, vibrant and sociable team of 250+
- Shared parental leave
- Kit of your choice - Dell, MacBook Pro or Chromebook. Budget available for desk, office chair and other kit on request.
- Subsidised gym membership at Nuffield Health City
- FT matches your charitable donations up to 拢500 every year
- Free premium subscription to ft.com
- Private healthcare & subsidised dental scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme with Health Assured
- ~10% performance-based bonus given out every Feb. (We're skipping 2021 for all staff due to the current situation, but back from 2022)
To apply please send your CV to talent@ft.com or laura.carvajal@ft.com, or email us with any questions!
Direct applicants only, please.