Senior Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Autonomous Problem Discovery: Spot critical gaps and unassigned challenges across our architecture before they impact users. You take immediate initiative to design and deliver robust, lasting solutions.

• Technical Direction & Standards: Proactively set and drive technical direction, architectural standards, and engineering excellence across the media stack. You balance near-term execution with sustainable, long-term system health.

• Force Multiplication & Mentorship: Actively raise the technical bar for the engineers around you. You share context openly, provide thoughtful code reviews, and eliminate knowledge silos so no single person becomes a bottleneck.

• End-to-End Delivery Excellence: Own complex features from concept to production. You collaborate directly with product managers and designers on scoping, steer deployment, and maintain production reliability, performance, and security.

• Full-Stack Execution: Architect and ship resilient functionality across our web surface, mobile apps, and services layer. You build clean, maintainable systems with Next.js, React 19, TypeScript, and modern backend services.

• AI-Native Engineering: Leverage AI tools as a standard part of how you design, build, and optimize software. We use Claude Code, Open Code, and open-source models daily. You champion internal AI tooling that accelerates workflows for product managers, designers, and editorial staff.

• Safe Release & Operational Governance: Champion progressive delivery practices using feature flags in LaunchDarkly. You build dependable CI/CD pipelines and production observability so the team can deploy often with complete confidence.

What You’ll Bring:

• Lead-Level Track Record: 7 to 8 years of experience shipping production software. You demonstrate verified end-to-end ownership of at least one complex, high-traffic production system from initial design through maturity.

• Full-Stack Ecosystem Mastery: Deep hands-on authority across modern web and backend technologies. You bring proven expertise in React, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, RESTful APIs, and content management platforms.

• Web Performance & Architecture Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Next.js, server-side rendering (SSR), and advanced caching patterns. You have a track record of tuning Core Web Vitals to deliver immediate page responsiveness at scale.

• Quality as a Feature: A disciplined commitment to automated testing across unit, integration, and end-to-end suites with tools like Playwright and Maestro. Automated testing is your default standard, never an afterthought.

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Strong communication skills with an appetite for working in a small, direct team. You move easily between deep technical debates and collaborative working sessions alongside product managers, designers, and newsroom partners.

• DevSecOps & Resiliency Mindset: Practical experience establishing automated CI/CD pipelines and embedding security best practices across client and server boundaries. You manage production risks with feature flags and actionable telemetry.

• Large-Scale Publishing Platforms: Proven background designing or maintaining high-volume consumer platforms or media properties with tens of millions of monthly impressions.

Nice to Haves:

• Architectural Pruning & Simplification: Proven experience deprecating and decommissioning legacy infrastructure and services, leaving codebases leaner and easier to maintain.

• Mobile Application Development: Hands-on experience building or maintaining production mobile applications using React Native and Expo.

• Modern Runtimes & High-Speed Datastores: Exposure to alternative execution runtimes like Bun and Elysia, along with high-throughput caching in Redis.

• Identity & CMS Platforms: Familiarity with modern authentication protocols using Auth0, alongside structured headless CMS architectures like Sanity.

• Monetisation, Analytics & Cloud Tooling: Familiarity with Google Ad Manager, Stripe billing, HubSpot, Amplitude, and Google Cloud Platform services with Terraform.