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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Sky UK
- **Location:** Isleworth, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Design of User Interfaces, Node.Js, Regression Testing, Next.js, TypeScript, Web Applications, ReactJS, Concourse, Playwright, Graphql, React Redux, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2842866346-senior-software-engineer

## About the Role

* Solid commercial experience in React, TypeScript and NextJS development
 * Good understanding of development best practices such as TDD, visual regression testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery
 * Good understanding of/experience with CI tools (Jenkins, Concourse) and testing frameworks
 * Experience with optimising web applications in areas such as performance, accessibility, security and resilience
 * Ability and enthusiasm to push for new improvements across the code base and influence/learn from a large community of developers, * Experience with other development languages, frameworks and testing frameworks such as NodeJS, GraphQL and Playwright

## Description

Join a team that facilitates the journey between customers and our third-party partners (Amazon, Charter US, Telekom and more) across all of our propositions (Peacock, NOW, WOW and SkyShowtime). You'll work project-to-project using React, Typescript and NextJS, shaping new partner onboarding, UI/UX improvements, performance enhancements, using AI-driven tooling that keeps our platforms ahead of the competition. This role sits at the heart of what enables Sky to scale, innovate and deliver seamless customer experiences across our streaming ecosystem., * Create extremely well-crafted front-end web applications using React.js and Redux

 * Write resilient code that will be continuously tested, deployed and performed at scale
 * Test front end application e2e with unit, functional, integration, visual regression and lighthouse testing
 * Be part of a self-organising and cross functional Agile team, building high traffic eCommerce and Service web applications for Sky and NBCU's OTT products - such as NOW, WOW, PeacockTV and SkyShowtime
 * Contribute to the team's technical direction and the improvement of its tools and processes
 * Ensure that the code written is in line with the department technical strategy - performant, resilient, secure and well monitored and alerted web applications


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