Job Description

Workplace: White City, London - Hybrid working

The role

The successful candidate will work within a cross functional team within our Video domain to deliver software that meets the needs of ITV's Streaming business. The ideal candidate will be a smart, kind person with a keen enthusiasm for Go. They should be able to display the aptitude and experience working with Go appropriate for a senior engineer. If they have any experience with Scala, specifically with an understanding of functional paradigms, this would be a bonus but is not required for this role. The expectation of engineers of this level would be people who can take on a piece of work and deliver it only requiring very occasional support. As a senior, you will be expected to be one of the most effective members of the team and set an example for more junior members to follow.

Main responsibilities

Understanding the requirements of work you are asked to do Writing high quality software, primarily in Go. Any Scala experience would be a bonus. Ensuring your work is suitably tested Ensuring your work is suitably reviewed Helping shape the work Helping to define the technical solutions to problems Collaborating effectively Working towards a warm, welcoming, and inclusive team environment Sharing plans and working towards shared understanding Keeping your team accountable Mentoring and guiding more junior members of the team Discussing how your community works Helping shape community policy, e.g. testing policies, development practices, on-boarding approaches Helping with initiatives, e.g. the graduate programme Knowledge sharing Participating in office-hours support work Participating in out-of-hours support Thinking holistically about the software your community maintains

Skills you'll need

(minimum criteria)




Extensive experience working as a Senior Software Engineer primarily using Go A high level of experience in the Go programming language Experience building RESTful API's Experience with automated testing practices Experience mentoring less experienced members of the team Experience with databases Extensive AWS experience (Lamba, EKS etc) Distributed Version Control (Git) Web services architectures, particularly

Other things we're looking for

(key criteria)




Some functional Scala experience Continuous delivery / deployment principles and practices Unix command line and basic systems administration Desirable General Development Abilities Experience of agile delivery and collaborative team working Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining 3rd party code Understanding of monitoring and performance concerns * Understanding and application of software design and architectural patterns