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Senior Full Stack Engineer
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Senior Full Stack Engineer Location: London Department: Technology Salary Details: Competitive Advertising End Date: Not Specified Job Description We are News UK: 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. We are Technology: a department with has people and product at its heart. Christina Scott, CIO of the Year 2016, leads the department. With many years experience transforming technology in media companies she has set out our vision of passionate and trusted experts creating industry leading solutions through attracting and developing the best talent. Your Team: Product Platforms , is part of a thriving engineering community in Technology who design, develop and operate all of News UK's customer facing products and platforms. Product Platforms will build a shared library of components that can be used as building blocks from which to construct world class products backed by a best of breed design system allowing for reuse by various products, titles and brands across News UK and NewsCorp. What we're looking at from you: **** 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 S.O.L.I.D. principles You are an advocate of Test Driven Development and understand why it's important to the way you write code You champion pair programming. You are comfortable working in an Agile environment and know the value of the agile ceremonies. You have a passion for solving complex problems You are involved in an Open Source project, be it your own or as a contributor. You are a team player and love collaborating with others. You are actively involved in software community events or meetup's You enjoy working in a social workplace. You have: Experience in Javascript with a focus on React Experience with Functional Programming in Javascript Experience with Node JS and Express Experience with Flux and Redux Experience with Typescript and Elm Experience in testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Enzyme Experience in AWS cloud platform The ability to mentor and coach junior members of the team Bonus if you have: Experience in working with Webpack Experience with React Storybook Experience building Design Systems An understanding of Isomorphic / Universal javascript Experience developing against Wordpress API's Ability to performance test high traffic websites Understanding of SEO Experience in creating / managing Jenkins infrastructure and jobs. What's in it for you? We are a diverse and dynamic team, with opportunities to learn and develop your skills in a supportive environment. We have an amazing office, a flexible working pattern and a great team culture. We'll help you deliver your best work and grow you with career and personal development through training, conferences and courses. Equal opportunities: The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace. We are a diverse team so want to maximise every individual's potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised. This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age. NewsUK Benefits We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK. Alongside pay, we offer: A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%; A comprehensive private medical scheme covering pre-existing conditions; Maternity leave of up to 18 weeks full basic salary and paternity leave of up 2 weeks full basic salary; Discounted rates for Fitness First gym membership for employees and immediate family; A range of different flexible working options, which can be requested by employees; Interest free commuter loan of up to 10,000 tax free 'Bikes For Work' scheme to save income tax and national insurance; Up to four Volunteering Days per year for employees to use on charities of choice; Health and wellbeing benefits including on-site physio/massage, counselling, legal advice, and others.