Accepting applications until: 30 April 2025Job Description
Front-End Developer
At Global, we think big, work hard, and never stand still. We’re the proud home of the best media and entertainment, driven by our talented and passionate people. Our mission? To make everyone’s day brighter — our Globallers, our audiences, our partners, and our communities. Whether we’re in the studio, building world-class technology, or securing record Outdoor advertising partnerships, we make sure we’re doing it as a team.
Your Role: Front End Developer
The DOOH team are responsible for developing the delivery platform for all programmatic advertisements across Global’s outdoor estate. This ranges from large roadside signs to all Transport for London digital displays. This platform sits at the heart of outdoor advertisement, and needs to be available 24/7, 365.
In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining intuitive dashboards for monitoring and managing digital advertising frames. You will integrate real-time data from various platforms, allowing users to track frame availability, bid statuses, and ad performance. You will work closely with the backend team to fetch and display data, implement interactive visualizations, and ensure that all front-end systems are responsive and performant.
As a Front End Developer at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
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Feature Development: 30% - Developing features for the business and building on the platform architecture to support future capabilities on the roadmap.
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Platform Development: 30% - You will contribute to developing reusable component libraries that power our applications.
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Collaboration: 30% - You will work closely with other developers, tech leads, and product owners to understand project requirements, discuss implementation approaches, and create seamless user experiences.
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Following standards and best practices: 10% - You will adhere to established coding standards, development processes, and best practices to ensure consistent and high-quality code.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: Working on an advertisement delivery platform across Global’s outdoor state, including TFL, seen by millions of people everyday.
Own It: Be part of a team with a strong ethos around maintaining their own services.
Keep it Simple: Break down complex concepts into clear, engaging, and easily digestible content that resonates with our audience.
Better Together: We are a friendly and close-knit team, working in a highly collaborative agile environment
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
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Delivered several features to the digital outdoor parts of our business.
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Followed good development practice and taken part in code reviews.
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Established strong working relationships with product managers, backend engineers, and design teams, ensuring alignment on requirements and feature deliveries.
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Contributed to enhancing the user experience by refining UI components based on feedback from users and stakeholders.
What You’ll Need
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Flexibility & Positivity: Self-starting, problem solving attitude.
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Expertise: Demonstrable experience of good coding patterns and understanding of functional programming.
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Software Development: Demonstrable experience in Typescript, React, Restful APIs, GraphQL (nice to have)
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Quality: A commitment to testing – experience of writing and maintaining unit tests
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Building Trust: Experience with working in a sociable, cross-functional team.
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Attention to Detail: An eye for detail and the desire to make sure things are done right.
Creating a place we all belong at Global
We are dedicated to creating a place where different voices are represented, amplified and celebrated. We know that we can’t serve our diverse audiences without first celebrating it in our people, which is why we’re passionate about creating an inclusive culture where every Globaller can belong. So, no matter who you are or where you are from, you can find your place at Global.
As a business, we believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a flexible and agile workforce. Therefore, we operate a Smart Working approach. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during your recruitment process, drop us an email at [email protected], we’ll be happy to help.
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What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold.
Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers.
Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities.
On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
