Core Front End Engineer

The Role

12 Month Fixed-Term Contract

Core Front End Engineer

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 (minimum criteria)

• 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 (key criteria)

• 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