Junior Engineer

Application deadline for this vacancy is Friday 22nd November at 12pm.

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.

The team: Internal Products

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 teams in 2024:

• Finance Technology: Responsible for the maintenance and development of the SaaS and PaaS applications that make up the finance systems landscape. Including Oracle Cloud ERP, Infrastructure and Integration Cloud and Coupa Procurement.
• Editorial Technology: Responsible for a suite of applications for our Editorial staff to author, edit and publish news articles.
• Marketing Technology: Responsible for 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.
• CRM Technology: Responsible for our Salesforce platform and the different applications used by our Sales teams.

Most of our teams use NodeJS, deploying a lot of their applications to Heroku multiple times a day using CircleCI. We often use AWS resources too, such as Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, S3 and others. Our databases are primarily MongoDB, with some PostgreSQL and Neo4j. Our front end apps are built using Origami and some React.

The Role

As an Junior Engineer you will be working with your team to build features for and support a range of systems used by FT employees. You will be contributing to the entire cycle of development - from idea, to writing code, testing, releasing to production, and ensuring it works as expected. You are passionate about learning new technologies, as well as learning more about the domain and people you are building for. 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.

You can read more about the FT:

• Our career progression framework here
• Our life at the FT blog here

What’s in it for you? Our benefits

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 hybrid working model that promotes flexibility, including remote work options. We will support specific flexibility 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, email [email protected] and a member of our team will be happy to help.