Front-End Software Engineer

CompanyITV

LocationLeeds, England, United Kingdom

Posted At3/13/2026

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Programmers and software development professionals

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£54,700 (£28.05 per hour)

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Description

Contract Type: Perm, Full Time

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000

Closing Date: 26th March 2026

Workplace: London White City or Leeds. The expectation is 1-2 days in the office.

The Team

Content Supply and Distribution (CS&D) is a key group within ITV’s Media & Entertainment business that is responsible for managing ITV’s content and data from source to screen across linear and VoD supply chains. The Content Supply Technology (CST) group develops, integrates and maintains the underpinning technology platforms, as well as the supporting functions of business analysis, architecture and project management. All this enables us to deliver ITVs famous and popular content from its multiple sources to our online platforms, to our B2B partners and to ITV’s family of linear TV channels.

As a department we work closely with our colleagues in the ITV business teams and with our closely related operational teams who are responsible for delivering our channels and content reliably, just in time, day in-day out.

Our teams build the technology that brings great content into ITV ready for broadcast, streaming and partner distribution. From handling video files and sourcing metadata for content to scheduling and checking compliance, our systems ensure millions of views get to enjoy their favourite shows.

The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic software engineer to join our software engineering function in CST. Our software engineers work as part of our development team across a range of products which make up our content supply chain. As well as supporting and improving our existing applications and their integrations with 3rd party software, you will also generate new ideas which address business challenges.

To be successful in this role, you will need experience with a JVM using functional programming, a familiarity with the software development life-cycle as well as being keen to expand your knowledge to new languages. You will possess effective communication skills and be expected to learn from the team and use other resources to grow your own knowledge and progress as an engineer.

We need our engineers to be versatile, team orientated and enthusiastic to take on new problems as we strive to improve and optimise our content supply chain processes.

As a Software Engineer you will:

Engineer spring-boot microservices in Kotlin/Java and React frontends in Typescript to a high standard.

Understand, develop and communicate system design, software solutions and architecture in collaboration with other engineers and teams.

Write infrastructure as code to deliver cloud resources onto Amazon Web Services.

Be responsible for producing high quality, well architected and maintainable code utilising a range of automated tests that allow for confident release into production.

Participate in design and code reviews and proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concerns.

Support applications through the full lifecycle, both during development, release, and after release.

Work closely with users and translate their operational needs into efficient, practical solutions and processes.

Engage as part of a cross functional Agile development team, contributing to the discovery and breakdown of tasks to deliver high quality solutions within wider project deadlines.

Use extreme programming practices including pair programming for engineering solutions and knowledge sharing as part of a self organising Scrum team.

Collaborate with other product teams to ensure good cross-product cooperation.

Skills You’ll Need (Minimum Criteria)

Kotlin or Java experience.
React experience.
Experience with a microservice framework such as Spring Boot or Ktor.
An interest in and the ability to learn new software and technologies quickly.
Ability to write maintainable and testable code, with a rigorous approach and attention to detail.
Experience of building and working with APIs including REST and GraphQL
Experience using Github, Jenkins and other repository or pipeline management solutions.
Familiarity with large system software design and development.
Solid understanding of engineering best practices.
Experience working with Agile methodologies.

Other things we’re looking for (desirable)

Experience with other JVM languages, such Scala, or Python
Good knowledge of popular frameworks e.g. Spring Boot, Ktor
Experience mentoring junior or less experienced engineers
Experience of media or broadcast related workflow systems or services
Experience writing Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) workflows for GitHub Actions
Experience of containerised microservices (Kubernetes) and messaging systems such as AMQP or SNS/SQS.
Experience with serverless components, such as AWS Lambdas