Software Engineer

Software Engineer

We are: News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations including talkSPORT, VirginRadio, talkRADIO and Times Radio.

We are Technology: a department that has people and product at its heart. We use technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of journalism and storytelling. We proudly are part of TechCharterUK as over 27% of our Tech roles are filled by gender minorities.

Your Team; Commercial Engineering, is part of a thriving engineering community in Technology who design, develop and operate News UK's commercial products and platforms. We are ushering in a new age of products, focusing on new technologies, enhancements and platforms that will drive our strategic goals across the ecosystem, starting with the core websites of The Sun and the Times, and including a portfolio of products such as Dream Team, Sun Football and others.

Your role: You will contribute to the new age of products, focusing on new technologies, enhancements and platforms that will drive our strategic goals across the ecosystem, starting with the core websites of The Sun and the Times, and including a portfolio of products such as Dream Team, Sun Football and others. Reporting to the Head of Engineering

Day to day you will work with the following tech and in the following way:

• Using Vanilla Javascript or Typescript to write clean code

• Working with Node JS or Express frameworks

• Using Cypress or Jest in testing frameworks

• Be using Redux or any other state management system

• Pair programming

  
  

What we are looking for from you:

• You are always thinking about the underlying software architecture and how we can continually improve it

• Clean code is extremely important to you and you live by DRY principles

• You champion pair programming

• You are an advocate of Test Driven Development and understand why it's important to the way you write code

• You are comfortable working in an Agile/Kanban environment

• You have a passion for solving complex problems

  
  

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Life at News

At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We champion diversity and inclusion, 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 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

• 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.

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

Tech achievements

We’re committed to promoting the brilliant talent we have in Tech by entering regular awards. This year, we have won awards recognising our talent for project management, devops, diversity and inclusion, collaboration with Data and apprentices, as well as being finalists for our data products data, user experience, product innovation, rising stars.

As well as awards, in FY22 we also committed to attend, sponsor and present at various conferences, and become members at leading industry associations, to ensure our colleagues have the best opportunities to learn and network with the best in the industry.