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Front End Developer

BT Group • Birmingham, ENG, GB • 3m ago

Front End Developer - AEM

Job Req ID: 36354

Posting Date: 9 Sep 2024

Function: Software Engineering

Unit: Digital

Location: Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary: Competetive with Benefits

Why this job matters

BT is the largest telco in the industry. With over 90k employees in the UK and 34 million customers, we generate over £10bn in revenue. This offers enormous opportunities for our people and to be No. 1 in the market. Our Consumer Unit exists as three household brands - BT, EE & Plusnet from which collectively we generate more revenue than any other part of BT. Our brilliant brands are all beautiful individually. Each has unique attributes that cater to very different segments of the market. This makes our goal possible; to create a connection in every home in the UK by 2025.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join the Digital Engineering Team. We’re investing hundreds of millions of pounds into digital and transforming the way we work to create, not just the best digital experience in the telco market, but something that customers talk about as the best in the UK.

Why this job matters:

To provide expert level, hands on iOS and Android Application design and development leadership across multiple systems in the Digital Engineering area with specific responsibility to ensure that solutions are designed to meet the business and customer needs, matching expectations for quality and reliability.
To participate in the delivery and implementation of both in-house and external solutions via Agile delivery to ensure solutions are compliant with the design and development standards and are fit-for-purpose.
To support the achievement of team service level targets by owning the completion of all assigned work requests, including testing, quality checking and delivering all assigned tasks within the agreed time-scales.
To maximise the business potential of BT/EE apps and sites as the most efficient sales and service channel. This will be demonstrated through efficiency and quality of coding, and in harnessing new internet and app technologies.

What you’ll be doing

Write, debug, test, troubleshoot and review code and tests, refining and rewriting as necessary, while communicating with engineering and project colleagues to deliver on time and to quality
Ensure the engineering organization delivers high-quality work on time and on budget by contributing to and implementing the engineering strategy, and contributing to the technical roadmap and pursuing innovation
Engage in and contribute to squad and tribe ceremonies, such as stand-ups, planning, reviews, and retrospectives, and drive forward items from improvement initiatives.
Coach and mentor other members of the team to Foster an innovative engineering culture that emphasizes creativity and consistently delivers high-quality products with predictability and reliability.
Contribute to technical responses of impact assessments for business propositions and technical design of solutions to business requirements
Implement and maintain high-quality tools, complex automation processes, and engineering and operational excellence initiatives to support continuous delivery, and increase developer productivity, using regular assessment of metrics.
Investigate and resolve production incidents
Contribute to internal and external conferences/meetups

Skills:

Ability to successfully collaborate as part of an Agile development team.
Good communication skills - written and verbal
Ability to contribute to ongoing process improvement activities in the team and look for ways to make a difference.
Communication of complicated technical requirements to the business leaders and project teams in non-technical language.
Communication of technical requirements within project teams.
Analytical and problem-solving skills to engineer solutions to business requirements.
Good interpersonal and teamworking skills.
Ability to manage their own time and assist others to meet sprint commitments in terms of functionality delivered.
Experience you would be expected to have
Have 2-3 or more years commercial knowledge / experience in AEM
Have 3 or more years commercial knowledge / experience of at least two of React, Flutter, iOS or Android development.
Experience of working within a true ‘DevOps’ environment, involving automated testing, continuous delivery practices and a high level of collaboration
Experience of using Jenkins and tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Gitlab
Experience of a range of relevant technical languages mainly AEM, React.js and Dart (Flutter).
Software design and development experience integrated with web services. Experience with RESTful Services and OpenAPI advantageous.
Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: BDD, TDD, Pair Programming etc.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

Benefits

Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
Life Assurance
Direct share scheme
Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option
Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’

Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
Life Assurance
Direct share scheme
Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option
Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’

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