Why BT?

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.

Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

The skills you’ll need to succeed :

• 6+ years’ experience with ReactJS, NodeJS, NextJS , TypeScript and GraphQL (Must have)

• Good understanding of MySQL and NoSQL databases.

• Experience with working on cloud environment such as AWS and developing serverless APIs using lambda is desirable.

• Understanding of application deployment using CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / Gitlab CI) is desirable.

• Fluent with modern JavaScript and standard tooling (Webpack, Babel, ES6, Linting, Prettier), HTML and CSS Preprocessors.

• Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (HTTP, cookies, headers, asset loading/caching, PWA).

• Proven experience with and demonstrable understanding of WCAG 2.0 AA compliance and WAIARIA, Performance optimization and responsive design.

• Experience in leading technical development teams and driving software delivery improvements, with technical and behavioral leadership experience.

• Experience in other front-end frameworks/libraries.

• Experience in driving the implementation of test-driven approaches (TDD, BDD)

o Unit test tools, Versioning tools.

o Ability to write and execute regression, unit, system, performance, and integration testing.

o Good understanding/awareness of usability, accessibility, and cross-browser issues.

• Excellent communication skills, ability to successfully collaborate as part of an Agile development team, and capability to interact directly with the stakeholders (show and tells/requirement, analysis

sessions/retrospectives etc)

• Attitude to adapt to new technologies is desirable.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

What you’ll be doing – your accountabilities :

• Expertise in Frontend, Backend, or both to develop using JavaScript/TypeScript with React and Node.

• Experience in designs using CSS, SASS, HTML, and React using reusable frameworks.

• Experience in APIs expertise, creation & integration, design patterns, JSON manipulation, data exchange and integration with systems using Node.

• Work with your peers, PO and EM, and finally with all the great people in the department.

• Test your code: Unit, Integration, A11y (I.e., Jest, React testing library, Cypress), Write unit tests and other automated tests.

• Work with architecture, engineering teams and other stakeholders to ensure the correct technical decisions are being made to deliver brilliant experiences.

• Support the analysis of content delivery and offer performance solutions.

• Contribute to Scrum ceremonies, platform technical direction and strategy.

• Coach and mentor junior members.

• Lead and work with multi-site and onsite, nearshore, and offshore engineering resources.

• Lead the technical analysis and troubleshooting of operational and security-related issues.

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.