Senior Software Engineer at financialtimes33

Location: Sofia, Sofia-City
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Posted: Jul 17, 2026

Description

The Financial Times (FT) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 1 to join their Storyfinding team. The role involves designing, building, and operating backend systems and services crucial for investigative and editorial work. Key responsibilities include managing data pipelines, ensuring high software quality, collaborating with journalists, and mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in distributed systems, Python, data pipeline maintenance, and cloud platforms like AWS.

Required Skills

distributed systems and APIs
Python
data pipelines
Apache Airflow
AWS
version control
CI/CD
automated testing

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Strong experience as a backend engineer designing and building production-grade distributed systems and APIs in a cloud environment.
Solid experience as a data engineer with a vital skill set in maintaining production data pipelines and using workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow.
Experience working with cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
Familiarity with modern engineering practices including version control, CI/CD, and automated testing.
Preferred Qualifications: Strong SQL skills and experience designing and working with relational and analytical databases.
Experience with databases such as BigQuery, Redshift, PostgreSQL, SingleStore, or MongoDB.
Experience working with unstructured or semi-structured data at scale.
A solid understanding of data modelling, data architecture, and trade-offs between different storage and processing approaches.
Comfort contributing to backend software engineering tasks beyond pure data pipelines.
Exposure to building internal tools or lightweight user-facing applications.
Experience with building simple user interfaces or/and the desire to do so (e.g., using frameworks like Streamlit).