Core Software Engineer

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced Software Engineers to join our Martech team, responsible for delivering marketing technologies that drive campaign effectiveness, personalisation, and data-led engagement across ITV, ITVX, and ITVX Premium. As a Core Software Engineer, you'll collaborate within your cross‑functional team to deliver new capabilities, maintain technical estate health, and contribute to ITV's wider marketing effectiveness. This role offers the opportunity to influence architectural direction and contribute to strategic technology decisions.

You’ll be involved in:

• Building secure, scalable, user‑centric applications.
• Supporting platform maintenance and continuous improvement.
• Working closely with Marketing, Operations, and Engineering teams to drive business outcomes.

This is also a strong growth opportunity to develop into a Senior Engineer and deepen expertise in Martech technologies and engineering best practices.

The team you’ll join is a focused engineering unit working alongside Agile Delivery and Product teams to build and scale systems that enable automation, efficiency, and measurable impact for Marketing. Our culture values autonomy, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. We work closely with ITV's Marketing Capability and Viewer Technology teams, uniting expertise in Media, Publicity, Creative, and Performance Marketing. Together, we’re creating a cohesive Martech ecosystem that helps ITV move faster and engage audiences more effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture and Product teams to design software solutions aligned with ITV's Enterprise architectural principles.
• Build secure, scalable and maintainable applications that support ITV's marketing technology ecosystem.
• Promote engineering excellence through readable, well‑architected code, strong documentation and comprehensive automated testing.
• Participate in design and code reviews to maintain high engineering standards and proactively identify potential improvements.
• Contribute to the ongoing maintenance, reliability and optimisation of Martech platforms and supporting services.
• Work closely with Marketing, Operations and engineering teams to deliver technology solutions that support business outcomes.

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria):

• Full‑stack web engineering experience, including architecture design, cloud‑native development, and system integration.
• Proficient in Typescript, with experience in unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD technologies (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and version control.
• Experience building and working with REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google) and infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Strong testing skills (unit, integration, end‑to‑end).
• Analytical mindset, with strong problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Solid understanding of engineering best practices, including writing maintainable and testable code.
• Ability to document, review, and explain complex technical subjects to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria):

• Familiarity with the Marketing domain, implementing SaaS digital asset management (DAM) systems.
• Familiarity with Microservices architecture and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or SNS/SQS.
• Familiarity with the end‑to‑end Data lifecycle, including an understanding of how marketing data is collected, ingested, and analysed to drive actionable business insights.
• Experience integrating 3rd‑party APIs, internal tools, and legacy systems.
• Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience with CMS platforms, such as Contentful.
• Experience with Logging & Monitoring frameworks.
• Familiarity with HTML5 and CSS3 across a broad array of web and mobile products, with knowledge and awareness of responsive design, performance, accessibility and SEO considerations.