Our client, The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations. They are recognized globally for their authority, integrity and accuracy. Financial Times provide a broad range of essential services, including news, comments, data and analysis, to the growing audience of internationally-minded business people. Currently, we are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer.

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:

• JavaScript

• React

• GraphQL

• Node.js

• CircleCI

• Fastly

• Heroku

• AWS

• Splunk

• SalesForce.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Work directly with senior stakeholders and product owners to fully shape solutions from inception to deployment and beyond

• Provide technical leadership to an engineering team

• Help with technical decision-making to support the technology strategy

• Aid and support the personal development of more junior team members

• Develop and maintain an understanding of the business domains within FT Specialist

• Use that understanding to shape the development of the platforms you build

• Work within the department's strategy and guardrails, and contribute to their ongoing refinement.

• Have a practical approach to working with a large portfolio of products that leverage a diverse range of technologies

• Communicate widely within the organisation to ensure best practice in other areas is understood and adopted where it makes sense to do so

• Develop an in-depth understanding of FT Specialist underlying data and data flow.
  

Essential skills and experience

• Good command of written and spoken English

• Extensive experience using the wide range of technologies and patterns required to build modern web products and services along with the tools that enable their creation

  • Deep knowledge of at least one programming language

  • Flexibility with technologies and willingness to work with our tech stack

  • Cloud infrastructure: (AWS, Heroku, GCP, or similar)

  • Databases, Document stores, and search technologies like MariaDB, ElasticSearch, MongoDB or MySQL

  • Message queues like Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.

• Good understanding of the principles and trade-offs of a microservices architecture

• Application performance tuning and optimisation

• Understanding of CI and CD delivery pipelines like CircleCI or Jenkins

• Designing for fault tolerance

• Writing automated unit and end-to-end tests – with best practice in mind – for feature development

• Able to balance the customer and business product needs with those needed to build high-quality products.

• Understand the importance of diversity and equality in a well-functioning team

• Be able to communicate clearly and concisely.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience working within an environment where operational support and monitoring of code and systems is part of the culture (DevOps)

• An understanding of CDNs and the role they play is web application architecture. e.g.Fastly, Cloudfront, Akamai etc.

• Experience with developing Salesforce Applications using APEX

• Experience with backend Java development using frameworks like Vert.X

• Instrumenting for observability and operability

• Understand how to build and maintain APIs

• How to design software to support easy scaling using a methodology like the 12-factor app

• Being an active member of the broader technology community with an understanding and passion for the current leading trends

• Being a leader with solid organisational and time management skills.

What does Xoomworks bring to the table?

• Competitive salary

• Meal tickets

• Employee private medical cover

• Gym subscription

• Flexible working hours

• Working from home policy

• Training and development.