Core Front End Engineer

Deaf Unity; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent media organization based in Greater London is seeking an experienced Core Front End Engineer to join their team. You will work hybrid, focusing on enhancing the ITVX platform's features and performance. The ideal candidate should possess strong JavaScript skills and experience with ReactJS, and be familiar with CI/CD technologies. This position emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and the importance of a digital-first approach in the media landscape. Competitive compensation and a dynamic work environment await.

Qualifications

• Proficient JavaScript or TypeScript skills.
• Experience with various testing practices.
• Knowledge of responsive design and SEO.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to front end applications for ITVX.
• Champion viewer behaviors and team collaboration.
• Aid growth of the platform through feature delivery.

Skills

Proficiency with Javascript and/or Typescript

Experience with testing frameworks like Cypress or Playwright

Experience with ReactJS and modern frameworks

Familiarity with CI/CD technologies

Experience with HTML5 and CSS3

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Core Front End Engineer

Workplace: White City, London – Hybrid/ You will be expected to work from the office one day per week.

12 Month Fixed-Term Contract

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced Front End Engineers to join our Streaming Viewer Journey Engineering teams, a key driver of our objective to increase digital revenues and Monthly Active Users on the ITVX platform. You will contribute to our browser, connected TV and broadcast front end applications.

As a Core Front End Engineer, you will proudly embody ITV Viewers behaviours to champion the Viewer, be an active and accountable team player, be a transparent decision maker, being a guardian of time and money and being fearlessly forward thinking. Your focus will be on delivery of features aiding growth of the platform and contributing to the wider business goals, as well as maintenance of the technical estate.

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.

Skills you’ll need

• Proficiency with Javascript and / or Typescript language
• Experience with a variety of testing practices and frameworks, automatic & manual such as cypress or playwright
• Experience with ReactJS and modern frameworks e.g. Next.js and consuming backend integrations such as GraphQL and REST
• 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 CI/CD technologies (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and version control

Other things we’re looking for

• Familiarity with a cloud infrastructure provider (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google), including infrastructure-as-code technologies (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience with Front End tooling e.g. bundlers, transpilers, ESM
• 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
• Comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Enjoy mentoring and sharing knowledge with other engineers
• Familiarity with pair programming techniques and styles, both in-person and remote
• Experience working with containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker)
• Experience participating in and running engineering communities of practice
• Understanding of agile ways of working and how to apply this in your day-to-day activities