Full Stack Web Developer

Firefly New Media publishes Consett Magazine and a network of local magazines in print and online, and builds websites, branding, digital campaigns and AI-driven automation for local businesses. Almost everything we run is software we wrote ourselves: the magazine sites, the magazine.ad editorial platform, the advertising tools and the automations that keep a small team on top of a lot of work.

We are hiring a full stack developer to own that code with us. This is a real engineering job in a small company, not a support role: you will ship to production every week and see the result in print and on the street.

• The public magazine sites and  React, Type Script, Vite and Tailwind on the front, Node and Express behind
• The magazine.ad editorial platform, where every story in every title now arrives, and the admin tools the editors use
• PostgreSQL with Drizzle, deployed on Railway, with backups, monitoring and the boring parts done properly
• Automation and AI tooling: we use Claude Code and the Claude API in daily work and in the product, and you will build with them
• Client websites for local businesses, from brief to launch to the first year of care

• Two or more years building and shipping web applications, or a portfolio that proves the same
• Comfortable across the stack:
  Type Script, React, Node, SQL, and happy to learn what you do not know yet
• Someone who writes clearly, tests their own work, and asks before assuming
• Interested in local news, small businesses and the North East. You will be building for neighbours
• Based within reach of Consett. We work together in person part of the week and remotely the rest
• The right to work in the UK. We are not able to sponsor visas

• From £27,300 a year, which is £14.00 an hour and 10% above the National Living Wage, rising with experience. Reviewed every April in line with the new rate, so the 2027 review is already in the diary
• 37.5 hours a week with flexible start and finish times around a core day, and hybrid working
• 28 days holiday including bank holidays, plus your birthday
• Workplace pension
• A current laptop and the tools you need, including paid AI tooling
• A training budget and time for it: conferences, courses, certifications
• A say in what we build. In a team this size your judgement counts

We are a small company and the starting salary reflects that. What we can offer is real ownership, a broad stack, and a direct line from your work to something people read across the North East.

Start date is by agreement, January 2027 at the latest. Earlier is fine if you are free sooner.

The process is short: a conversation, a look at something you have built, and a paid half-day working with us on a real task.