Company Description
At Forbes Advisor, our mission is to help readers turn their aspirations into reality. We arm people with trusted advice and guidance, so they can make informed decisions they feel confident in and get back to doing the things they care about most.
We are an experienced team of industry experts dedicated to helping readers make smart decisions and choose the right products with ease. Forbes Advisor boasts decades of experience across dozens of geographies and teams, including Content, SEO, Business Intelligence, Finance, HR, Marketing, Production, Technology and Sales. The team brings rich industry knowledge to Marketplace’s global coverage of consumer credit, debt, health, home improvement, banking, investing, credit cards, small business, education, insurance, loans, real estate and travel.
Job Description
Forbes Advisor is hiring! We are expanding our UK-based development team as we continue our journey to evolve Forbes Advisor from a leading publisher into a tech powerhouse in the US market. As a part of our Application Engineering team, you will play a key role building immersive experiences for Forbes Advisor’s customers as well as developing bespoke internal tools for use in house by the Forbes Advisor team.
Our engineering culture is flat and collaborative, where you will be empowered to help design, architect, and build solutions using the tools best suited to the job. We follow a lean product-driven approach valuing features delivered above estimates and story points.
Our tech stack currently includes: dotnet, NodeJS, Vue, AWS, Terraform, Typescript, ChatGPT, REST, GraphQL, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, NoSQL, New Relic
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable systems and applications. Own services end-to-end, ensuring high availability, performance, and security while continuously improving architecture and infrastructure.
- Collaborate with team of other senior engineers to help build solutions to meet the users needs. Contribute to a positive team culture fostering a supportive environment to motivate and challenge each other
- Embrace a product-driven agile approach with the space to build great things at fast pace. We value features delivered, and embrace continuous deployments, automated testing and the lowest possible maintenance overhead within the finished products.
- Collaborate with the broader marketplace team, tapping into expertise from industry and domain specialists across Europe and the US to create pioneering experiences.
- Leverage your technical expertise to disrupt the market and produce exciting new journeys and experiences for a US market.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience at a senior developer level, ideally involving high-performance web systems and client-facing projects.
- Experience with C# (.net core), server side and client-side JavaScript or experience using established frameworks (Vue, React, Angular)
- Experience working with AWS, automating testing and working with CI/CD pipelines for rapid delivery
- Front end CSS/HTML 5 experience – ideally completing a full stack portfolio or with a willingness to lean into back and front-end technologies.
- Awareness of the serverless suite of tooling provided by Amazon Web Services.
- Analytical abilities, able to read and understand application telemetry, customer analytics and semantic monitoring to improve and optimise products and code.
- Effective collaborative skills to share ideas, lead architectural discussions, and ensure your insights are heard, contributing to solutions
Role further details:
Forbes Advisor has a well-established position working across a multitude of household publisher brands in the US. The company seeks to own advanced tech to monetise journeys and support customers in making decisions on the best products and services to buy.
The role is UK based, working hand in glove with an integrated UK based senior product and development team. We believe in collaborative and empowered teams, where the sum of the group is stronger than the contribution and unique skills each team member brings. We to move quickly and deliver robust high quality code and products.
Forbes Advisor’s core engineering team is based in India, supporting the substantial publishing platform. This initiative is to build a new parallel stack of micro services to fit in across the extensive estate of advisor and marketplace propositions to monetise content.
The company has ambitions to build many journeys, addressing the architecture form the ground up in a modern serverless approach. The team would look to build a collection of services, extending and customising for brands and product areas.
We have a vision of building the ultimate comparison technology, from MVP to fully features enquiry forms, CDL, product stores and aggregator layers, referral and fulfilment mechanisms and end to end tracking. The US market is expansive, immature and malleable to technically advanced new entrants. This is a perfect time, at a perfect organisation with great brands to be able to build something truly different.
Additional Information
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This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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