Senior Backend Developer

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.

We are now looking for a Senior Backend Software Developer to join our Apps Experience team on a 12 month fixed contract.

You could be building the products that showcase our progressive and independent journalism, crafting the tools that journalists use to write their stories, developing the services that allow those stories to be distributed across the globe, or safeguarding our financial future.

• You'll mostly be programming in Scala and Typescript, running in AWS, but we use the tool that best fits the problem.
• You’ll be working in a cross-functional team, which is empowered to rapidly iterate and release new features.
• You won’t be coding in isolation - our culture is strongly collaborative, whether pair programming with other developers or working closely with editorial and commercial colleagues.
• Sometimes deciding what code to write is as hard as writing the code itself. As an engineer you’ll be involved in product decisions as well as technical ones.
• You have a strong interest in growing your skills even further.

Much of our code is openly available on Git Hub, and some of our projects are widely used throughout the Open Source community. Many of our developers regularly attend and present ase visit our Guardian Developers site and the Guardian Developer blog for more information about working in the Digital Development team.

• As a full stack engineer, you’ll be equally willing to dive into a purely functional and composable Scala back-end, or a complex Typescript front-end.
• You inspire the people you work with, and are inspired by them in return.
• You contribute to the direction of your team's products
• You are passionate about spreading engineering best practice beyond your immediate team.
• You are excited by the opportunity to shape the future of digital journalism.
• Your interests go beyond just your team's objectives; you are curious about where the organisation is moving as a whole.
• You have a strong interest in growing your skills.
• You can make reasoned choices regarding what technologies to use and when to use them.
• We believe diversity of people, backgrounds, experience and ideas helps us to build better products and achieve more. We welcome applicants who have taken traditional and non-traditional career paths into software development.

Our engineers and developers operate in a hybrid environment working 1 day a week from our offices in Kings Cross and 4 days a week remotely.

We strive for transparency in remuneration. The salary for new Senior Developers at the Guardian is £72,000 per year.

We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people. We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements.

• You have 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the…