Financial Times

Life in Technology at the FT

We are looking for people who want to help us make world-class websites and services that help our readers find and enjoy globally respected content from the Financial Times.

What it’s like to work for us ...

Our department spans all areas of technology including server side, web and cloud software development, quality assurance, integration, on premise and cloud provisioning, operational support, IT governance, programme/project management & customer/supplier management.

We have a team of 250+ located primarily in London near London Bridge, with smaller pockets of staff in regional offices.

We try to ensure engineers have the tools they need - people are free to choose the OS and device type that suits them, and we encourage exploration of new tools and techniques.

We believe in the cloud and web-based systems: for example, the entire company uses Google Apps for Work and Salesforce, and we’re reducing our dependence on fat client applications.

We believe in multi-disciplined co-located teams empowered to choose their own development methodologies. Teams typically use methodologies such as SCRUM or Kanban. Similarly most teams choose to practise Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment.

We run regular 1-2 day hack days which all employees are able to participate in.

We also use a variation on hackdays at the inception of projects, called “quickstarts”, and actively encourage attendance and participation at external events and conferences.

We have an emerging web technologies team called FT Labs. We experiment with exciting new web technologies to bring the world’s finest journalism to new platforms, technologies and channels.

We are committed to creating a diverse group at all levels of the company: almost 1/4 of our developers are women and we recruit using a variety of channels including Engineering forums, Graduate and Intern Schemes.

Check out our [roles.ft.com](roles.ft.com) for more details.