Workplace: White City, London - Hybrid (minimum 2 days in the office per week)
Core Front End Engineer
We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced Front End Engineers to join our Streaming Viewer Technology team – a key driver of our objective to increase digital revenues and Monthly Active Users on ITVX.
As a Core Front End Engineer, your focus will be on delivery of features to grow the platform and meet the wider business goals, as well as maintenance of the technical estate. You will embody our ITV Behaviours of taking ownership and responsibility for your actions, making fast and informed decisions, welcoming new perspectives and inspiring performance for our business and each other.
The team
As a Media and Entertainment brand at heart, we are people-focused and place a huge emphasis on innovation. Our culture is everything to us and our product teams power the platforms for our stars on screen to shape the future.
Here at ITV, we are undergoing a major digital transformation drive, across all of our platforms and on-demand services. With the rapid shift in industry trends, from VOD streaming to programmatic AI and ever-changing consumer tastes, accelerating the demand for high-quality, high-volume content delivery at scale, we are looking to leverage our long-standing reputation as the largest commercial TV network in the UK in order to create a technology-first media platform that caters to an increasingly diverse worldwide audience.
Responsibilities:
- Work with Product Managers and Agile Delivery Managers to translate requirements and product features into manageable components/tasks, giving estimates, suggest solutions and identifying possible risks.
- Contribute towards best practice for application development; specifying, designing and implementing reusable components that are efficient, scalable and well-abstracted.
- Write, review and take responsibility for technical documentation that assists teams in picking up domain experience.
- Work with test and operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Keep abreast of new and existing technologies and be able to apply these to a variety of projects as applicable.
- Be active in developer communities inside and outside of ITV, contribute to discussions and external projects, attend conferences and build a network of like-minded individuals.
Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)
- Proficient in Javascript and Typescript.
- Experience with ReactJS, Next.js and other modern frameworks, and consuming backend integrations such as GraphQL and REST APIs.
- Experience with a variety of testing practices (unit, integration, end-to-end) and frameworks, such as Cypress or Playwright.
- Experience 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.
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD technologies (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and version control.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and ways of working.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills; comfortable working with technical and non-technical colleagues.
- Familiarity with pair programming techniques and styles, both in-person and remote.
- Experience mentoring and sharing knowledge with other engineers.
Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)
- Experience with Front End tooling e.g. bundlers, transpilers, ESM.
- Familiarity with a cloud infrastructure provider (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google), including infrastructure-as-code technologies (e.g. Terraform).
- Experience working with containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker)
- Experience of developing and integrating with a CMS, such as Contentful.
- Experience of working with ad-based technologies
- Familiarity with HTML5 video playback technologies and streaming formats, such as HLS, MPEG-DASH.
- Familiarity with developing for embedded devices such as Connected TVs, Set Top Boxes etc.
- Experience with Logging & Monitoring frameworks, and using them to diagnose incidents.
- Experience participating in and/or running engineering Communities of Practice.
