Senior Software Engineer

The Financial Times is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the FT Core group within the Product & Technology organisation. This role focuses on building and operating critical digital platform services including content management, subscriptions, access control, and data infrastructure that power the FT's global news delivery and reader experiences.

* Design and implement scalable, well-monitored, secure distributed systems and RESTful APIs used by millions globally * Work directly with product managers and senior stakeholders to shape solutions from inception through deployment and ongoing support * Contribute to the design of company-wide architecture, tooling, release processes, and engineering frameworks across the Product & Technology organisation * Conduct comprehensive code reviews, establish coding best practices, and mentor other team members * Provide operational support and troubleshoot live incidents in high-traffic systems using monitoring tools like Grafana and Splunk

* Minimum 5 years of proven experience building and maintaining distributed systems in project-based environments * High proficiency in Java and/or Go (Java preferred) with proven delivery of well-engineered solutions using SOLID, TDD, CI/CD, and pair programming * Track record of designing and building RESTful APIs and demonstrating non-functional requirements expertise (performance, scalability, high availability, monitoring, security) * Good working experience with at least one cloud infrastructure provider, ideally AWS, and solid SQL/NoSQL knowledge * Comfortable working in a Linux environment, microservices architecture principles, and Agile delivery methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) * Experience with Spring Framework, good command of written and spoken English

* Experience in DevOps culture where operational support and monitoring of code and systems is embedded * Experience building and operating high-traffic/high-load systems * Ability to accurately monitor and analyse system performance using tools like Grafana or Splunk * Industry certification in AWS Associate or other relevant platform, tool, or domain certification * Comfort working with code-assisting AI tools such as Codex