JavaScript Job: Back End Engineer

Backend Engineer

Permanent,

Grays Inn Road and very flexible Home Working

Salary: 75,000- 80,000£

Why you should join us…

We connect with millions of people every day, make content they can't get enough of and reflect and shape the world we live in… and we do all this through the power of creativity.

We will be a digitally led entertainment and media company that creates and brings brilliant content to audiences, wherever, whenever and however they choose.

Business overview per Business Area:

Working on a greenfield project you’ll have an opportunity to get involved in shaping our Backend engineering practices, software design and stack, and help us build a supportive, learning, inclusive engineering culture.

This role entails…

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

Software engineering and devops

• Contribute to software design and implementation
• Contribute 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

To be considered for this opportunity you will need to demonstrate the following skills:

Minimum role criteria:

• Working knowledge of our technology stack (Javascript and Node.js).
• Working in an agile environment
• Utilising TDD principles
• Ensuring code quality using CI/CD tools
• Working with databases e.g. PostgreSQL

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from candidates with a disability and as a Disability Confident Leader if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you have a disability, we’ll guarantee you’ll get to the next stage*.

(minimum criteria above)

The Key role criteria is as follows:

• Stack: JavaScript, Node.js, GraphQL, REST
• AWS: Lambda, RDS, Aurora, RDS/Aurora,
• Datastores, e.g. Redis, PostgreSQL
• Knowledge and experience of agile/lean processes and methodologies
• CI/CD pipelines, e.g. CircleCI,
• Security tools, e.g. Snyk
• Quality, metrics and reporting tools
• Experience of TDD
• Worked with source control systems such as Github and flows such as Github Flow

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application process as part of our reasonable adjustments approach. So we encourage you to get in touch with us if you require anything... our email is [email protected].

If you want more information regarding this role please feel free to email [email protected]

We want to be the most flexible employer in Media. We offer Smart working and we will support you and provide you the right environment and work/ life balance

We reach millions of people everyday, that’s why having diverse talents and being an organisation where colleagues feel included is crucial to us. We have various networks who celebrate and support our colleagues. We try to embed an inclusive mindset in everything we do.

• 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.