Java Developer

Future is a tech enabled global specialist media business with a large proportion of our business operation online. Our proprietary tech stack is what allows us to win in this space. You may know some of our brands.
Our business is complex and that means there are always complex technology challenges for our Tech & Engineering team to solve!

The core parts of the the tech stack comprise of:
• Platform: Vanilla - our single modular web platform enables the current 26 brands to exist and their respective content to reach circa 260m users a month; Incorporated in Vanilla is a single content management system with internationalisation and semantic analysis of content capabilities;
• Ecommerce: Hawk - our ecommerce service enables the monetisation of our content through product affiliates; Hawk connects with 2100 affiliates merchants and process 280m product offers daily, matching against our content at a rate of 2000 requests per second;
• Advertising: Hybrid - our advertising system enables the delivery of 13.8bn open auction programmatic advertising a year. It is a server side open auction marketplace dealing with yield management;
• Email: Smartbrief - our email tech supports the creation and distribution of email newsletter with targeted and pacing of advertising within. Annually, the email tech delivers circa 1.2bn emails;
• Intent Marketing: technology being built from the ground up to support a new business objective;
• Magazine: Source - our content commissioning portal for magazines and Studio is the flatplanning systems for building magazines.

Job Purpose
As a Java Developer you contribute to one or several of our core web-platform server side components development and integration. That includes responsibility for designing, implementing and deploying new features, as well as improving and refactoring existing code or supporting the existing live platform.
Key Responsibilities
• Developing and maintaining the platform in a collective code ownership approach
• Refactoring legacy code, developing code coverage
• Participating in the deployment process
• Working together with the team for planning, design decisions and solution implementation

Benefits
As well as our standard benefits, we have a number of awesome perks available to our staff including:
• Unlimited paid time off (yes you read that right!)
• We offer structured career development to all of our people ensuring they have the skills and experience to grow. Our CTO, Kevin Li Ying joined us as a Programmer!
• A share in our success- every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year
• Free food (monthly munchies, bagel Fridays, fresh fruit & snacks and coffee and tea on tap)
• Free digital magazine subscriptions and access to back copies of our print magazines and bookazines
• Annual Future conference - get together with your colleagues to celebrate success and look forward to what's next