Team and Role Overview

FT Core brings together key digital assets like:

• Content and Metadata - enabling content publishing, smart metadata annotations, content discoverability and delivery in various forms and formats.
• Membership - powering a seamless subscription/payments/access and the whole newspaper distribution customer journeys
• Data Platform - enabling storing, processing and getting insights from readership data

 

You will have the autonomy to select the tools and technologies you need to build and operate services responsible for FT brand critical capabilities. Someone who is comfortable with the ever changing technical landscape and is keen to contribute to the company’s processes and broader know-how would thrive in this role.

The Membership Platform takes care of some of FT Core business capabilities. 

• Access and Identity decisions - who is able to access FT.com, what the user can read, share articles and store user information.
• Subscriptions & Payments - what subscriptions each user has, when and how they pay and process the transactions.
• Newspaper Distribution - The Membership Platform also takes care of providing the delivery and print files for the successful distribution of the Print copy of FT.com throughout the whole world.

You will be responsible for delivering innovative technical solutions as you build and operate world class platforms. You will have the autonomy, within defined guard rails, to select the tools and technologies you need to build and operate services.

We have recently published our Engineering Progression framework and associated competencies for a Software Engineer relevant to this position

 

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for delivering innovative technical solutions as you build and operate world class platforms. 
• You will have the autonomy, within defined guard rails, to select the tools and technologies you need to build and operate services.

We have recently published our Engineering Progression framework and associated competencies for a Software Engineer relevant to this position.

 

The Tech Stack

We often use these, it's not an exhaustive list but gives you a taste of what our technology stack and tools look like:

• Java (Spring Boot, Dropwizard)
• Kubernetes (EKS)
• AWS
• Node.js
• GraphQL
• Cron and kubernetes jobs
• Jenkins
• Kafka

 

Required Skills / Experience 

• working experience with Java, Spring, Microservice Architecture, RDBS
• knowledge about design patterns & SOLID principles
• knowledge about CI/CD
• Docker and container orchestration

 

In Return, We Can Offer You

• Annual bonus scheme
• 25 days annual paid leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Private Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave policy
• Food Vouchers
• Multisport Card
• Work-life balance and work from home practice
• Both in house and external training programs
• Your own training dedicated budget (for conferences, courses etc.)