Job Description

Software (Web) Engineer

Location:

London

Department:

Technology

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

Not Specified



We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Your team: The Times & Sunday Times, we develop and enhance the Times and Sunday Times digital products, including our core website and including a portfolio of additional titles such as Times Literary Supplement, Travel, Style and Beauty, working in partnership with internal and external digital platform teams.

Your role: Web Engineer. You\'ll be an important part of a team delivering quality software, requiring you to show proactivity, initiative, excellent teamwork and good judgement. You will help define, implement and continuously improve software feature delivery, working with colleagues in DevOps to streamline and automate as much as possible.

Day to day you will:

• You\'ll work in an agile environment with product teams and business analysts to ensure that solutions are technically feasible, scalable and maintainable.

You\'ll collaborate with your peers across QA, DevOps and engineering both in London and further afield to advocate a test-driven, continuous delivery approach and evangelise the importance of value driven solutions for the end user.

What we\'re looking for from you:

• You\'re a Web Software Engineer with a background in user-facing, transactional websites at scale. A professional who can demonstrate knowledge of industry best-practices and current standards. Your experience has touched upon a breadth of web development, including Front-end development for the Web and the architecture that sits behind it. Maybe you have previously helped optimise solutions for high traffic websites and understand the impact of load, performance and security and how this affects delivered value.

You\'ve developed in a range of Web Architectures using HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, NextJS, GraphQL, Typescript and Node, have an understanding of the difference between Server-side, Static and Client-side rendering and have used associated tools and plugins that improve developer experience as well as product delivery. You may be required to update, maintain and decommission legacy code, architecture and approaches as part of our longer term strategies so any experience with other ways of working and frameworks is desirable.

You are familiar with CI/CD tooling such as CircleCI and GitHub. You understand Cloud Infrastructure with AWS and how containerisation helps. You\'ll also have an appreciation of secure best practices and follow and actively seek to improve security by design.

We love knowledge sharing, so ideally you\'ll feel comfortable presenting to internal teams, sharing your knowledge as well as mentoring and assisting more junior levels in the team.

Ideally, you have experience of Test frameworks (e.g. Cypress, Jest, Mocha, PactJS), an understanding of visual testing frameworks (e.g. BackstopJs and Applitools) and React Storybook.

Life at News : At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/) , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual\'s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

Discounted gym memberships , ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

\'Bikes for Work\' scheme

Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.

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