Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Streaming

Permanent | Full Time

Office location: White City, London | Hybrid - 2 to 3 days a week in the office.

Hiring range: Up to £100,000 based on experience

For more information please email TalkingCareers@itv.com

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

Your impact sends ripples.

The role

The Engineering Manager will take a people-first approach, overseeing both front-end and back-end teams responsible for building and maintaining ITVX. This role focuses on delivering high-performing, scalable, and reliable streaming services while fostering a culture of innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

While collaborating across Streaming, this role sits within the Growth & E-commerce Engineering team, a key driver of our objective to increase Monthly Active Users. The team also plays a crucial role in supporting ITV's marketing and distribution efforts, enabling reactivation and acquisition campaigns that drive top-of-funnel growth and contribute to broader ITV initiatives

Main responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and grow engineers, focusing on their career development, technical expertise, and individual empowerment. Champion best practices in code quality, security, and testing. Be a leader who can guide the team through business changes by setting clear expectations and helping engineers adapt to new priorities.
• Technical Excellence & Strategy: Shape the technical roadmap, driving architectural decisions to ensure scalability and performance. Encourage experimentation with new technologies and manage infrastructure to ensure stability.
• Operational Management: Work with delivery managers to ensure agile processes, oversee on-call rotations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align priorities and deliver features.
• Culture & Continuous Improvement: Promote an inclusive and diverse engineering environment, support continuous learning, and drive process optimisations while maintaining work-life balance through ITV’s Smart Working initiative.

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Senior Programmer Experience: Proven experience with expertise in front-end or back-end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Scala, Java, Go, Rust, HTML, and CSS.
• Architecture & Performance: Strong understanding of system architecture, service performance, and DevOps practices.
• Diverse Culture Advocacy: A track record of fostering an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.
• Agile Experience: Demonstrable experience with agile delivery methodologies and the ability to balance speed with maintaining a high-quality codebase.
• Team Leadership: Experience in leading a team of engineers, focusing on individual growth, delivery, and engineering excellence.

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders and balance competing business and technical priorities.
• Coaching & Mentorship: Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers, providing regular developmental feedback, and facilitating career growth.
• Recruitment & Team Building: Experience leading recruitment efforts and continually advocating for a diverse, inclusive team.
• Process Improvement: Ability to assess and optimise business processes, suggesting and implementing alternatives for greater efficiency.
• Presentation & Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Real-Time Analytics: Experience working with real-time analytics and monitoring systems for live streaming environments.
• Cloud Technologies: Expertise in cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with monitoring tools for performance and service reliability optimisation.
• Streaming Technologies: Knowledge of streaming technologies such as HLS, DASH, and video/audio codecs (encoding/decoding).

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.

Find out more about applying with a disability.

* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including

• Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life