Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Department: Commercial Tech & Change

Permanent

Office location: ITV White City/ Flexible Home-Office options

Hiring range: £70,000 - £85,000

For more information please email TalkingCareers@itv.com

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

Your impact sends ripples.

The team

You’ll be joining a recently kick-started engineering initiative that’s developing a cloud-centric engineering product that is critical to ITVs advertising business. You will also play a key role in shaping and growing our inclusive engineering culture.

The role

You will work in the following areas:

Software Engineering and DevOps

• Contribute to software design and implementation, and to software optimisation efforts
• Be involved in defining and following software standards and processes from peer code reviews to coding standards
• Follow best DevOps and DevSecOps practices, to ensure successful delivery, observability, operation and security of software in production
• Work with test and operations teams to troubleshoot, resolve issues and write unit and automated functional tests

Process and culture

• Help design and implement quality and cross-functional software development processes
• Have a role in defining and enabling a good engineering culture

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Working knowledge of our technology stack (TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js).
• Experience building user-centric front-end applications
• Working in an agile environment
• Confident approaching development with TDD principles
• Embracing code quality and automation with CI/CD tooling
• Knowledge of AWS
• Worked with source control systems such as Github

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Knowledge of the UK broadcast industry & broadcast/OTT advertising market
• Knowledge of digital marketing and advertising industry
• Knowledge of Terraform and CloudFormation as IaC technologies
• Experience using AWS serverless technologies including Lambda, Step Functions, Aurora
• SSO solutions such as Cognito, Okta
• Working knowledge of GitHubActions or other CI/CD frameworks

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.

• There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including

• Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
  

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