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Senior Front End Developer (CTV) - FTC - End of April
📍 London | Hybrid 📺 UKTV | U App & Connected TV Platforms
Want to help shape the future of streaming at one of the UK's fastest-growing VoD platforms? At UKTV, we're investing heavily in U, our rapidly growing streaming service. Following exceptional growth, U achieved:
- 15% growth in direct-to-consumer viewing
- 23% increase in monthly active users
- 18% growth in registrations
We're now looking for a Senior Front End Developer with strong Connected TV (CTV) experience to join our Digital team on a fixed-term contract and play a key role in delivering the next generation of features and functionality across our streaming platforms.
About the Role
As a senior member of our front-end engineering team, you'll become one of our CTV experts, helping to build and evolve applications across platforms including Amazon Fire TV, Samsung, LG, Freeview Play and more.
Working within an Agile squad, you'll collaborate closely with Product, Design and Development colleagues to create outstanding streaming experiences enjoyed by millions of viewers.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and wants to make a genuine impact within a forward-thinking media business.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Developing new features and functionality across UKTV's Connected TV ecosystem
- Building high-quality, scalable front-end applications using React and TypeScript
- Maintaining and improving existing codebases
- Working closely with platform partners to resolve technical challenges
- Implementing accessibility best practices
- Conducting code reviews and promoting engineering excellence
- Contributing to sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and reviews
- Championing quality, performance and maintainability across our CTV products
- Sharing knowledge and mentoring developers within the team
What We're Looking For
Essential Experience
- Strong commercial experience with React and TypeScript
- Experience building consumer-facing digital products
- Solid understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and services
- State management experience
- Experience working with Git and modern development workflows
- Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
- Experience with testing and quality assurance practices
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Desirable
- Experience with Preact
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
- Understanding of video playback, DRM and encoding technologies
- Knowledge of Next.js and/or React Native
- Experience of sustainable development practices and reducing digital carbon impact
You'll Thrive Here If You
- Love building products used by large audiences
- Are naturally curious and continuously learning
- Enjoy working collaboratively to solve problems
- Care about code quality and user experience
- Bring a positive, solution-focused mindset
- Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams
Why UKTV?
You'll be joining a business with ambitious plans to become a leading VoD destination, delivering innovative content and experiences across our owned-and-operated streaming products and partner platforms.
Most importantly, you'll help shape products that millions of viewers enjoy every day.
Ready to build the future of streaming with us? Apply now.
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