Overview

Position Title: Commercial Software Engineer

Company: News UK

Location: Halesowen, UK

Job Description:

News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organization 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.

Responsibilities:

  • As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a key component of a team delivering quality software.
  • You’ll interact with product owners and stakeholders, contribute to the technical conversations and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose.
  • You’ll report to a Principal Engineer and will help him/her deliver on the technical strategy and tactical implementation.
  • You’ll mentor other engineers to bring them up to your standard.
  • you’ll be involved with the technical direction as well as day to day coding standards and best practices.
  • You’ll be a mentor to your peers and team members, a source of technical expertise and will participate in strategic conversations with the rest of engineering and the business.
  • You’ll feel comfortable presenting to internal teams.

Requirements:

  • A software engineer with a passion for writing amazing code
  • 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/SOLID principles
  • You champion pair programming
  • You are comfortable working in an Agile/Kanban environment
  • You have a passion for solving complex problems
  • Strong experience with Vanilla Javascript
  • Experience with Node JS and Express, AWS cloud platform, Redux or any other state management system, Typescript and testing frameworks such as Jest, Cypress
  • Knowledge of WordPress/PHP

About News UK

News Corp UK & Ireland Limited is a company full of talented, dedicated, and creative people. We are an ambitious organisation with a passion for quality content and storytelling, capturing moments, meaning, and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers and digital products include some of the most powerful media brands in the English speaking world, reaching over 30 million people each week. Our brands include national newspapers - The Sun, The Times, and The Sunday Times - as well as Unruly, a global ad tech company, and Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations such as talkSPORT, talkRADIO, and Virgin Radio.