Full Stack Developer, Newsletters

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 Full Stack Developer to join our Product & Engineering Newsletters team.

The P&E Newsletters team manage the tooling and platform that enables our editorial users to publish ~70 editorial newsletters, showcasing the breadth of the Guardian’s progressive and independent journalism, to millions of subscribers globally.

You’ll be coding on the frontend and backend of one of our systems in order to make an impact towards your team's objectives, typically in Typescript and Scala. 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’ll be encouraged to grow – we support moving between teams and roles in order to learn new skills and technologies in whatever direction you choose. 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 at conferences.

As a full‑stack engineer, you’ll be comfortable working on the back‑end and front‑end. We typically use Scala and Typescript; you may not be familiar with Scala yet, but you should have a solid back‑end knowledge in an equivalent programming language. If you have a Java script background but don’t have familiarity with Typescript, you should be happy to learn Typescript on the job.

You are excited by the opportunity to shape the future of digital journalism and passionate about web technologies. 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 operate in a hybrid environment working 1 day a week from our offices in Kings Cross and 4 days a week remotely.

We believe in salary transparency where possible. The salary for new Full Stack Developers at the Guardian starts at £57,000 per annum.

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’ll have 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days. Our pension scheme is generous; if you contribute 5% then we will contribute 8‑12% (depending on your age). We believe in giving back, which is why employees are given 2 volunteering days annually and the option of payroll giving. Season ticket loans are also available.

You are entitled to private healthcare, life cover, income protection, and eye tests. You can also opt in to dental insurance.

We have enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies in place. We also support our employees by offering an IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy.