News UK Hiring for Associate Software Engineer Job at London, England Full Time

Associate Software Engineer (Part Time FTC)

Your team; Content Platforms. Founded in 2019, Content Platforms is a technology team within News UK Tech that provides content planning, management, authoring, curation and distribution capabilities that allow the flexibility for reuse across News UK brands, enabling our content creators to deliver the most trusted and compelling journalism in the world. Our platform underpins some of the biggest publishing brands in the UK, including The Times and The Sunday Times, and the UK’s most widely read publication, The Sun.

Content Platforms are poised to change the way our newsrooms create, develop and interact with content, helping to solve the major challenges of transforming to a digital first organisation while inspiring and empowering our newsrooms to expand their horizons and push the boundaries of how stories will be told in the future. We are an agile, cross-functional and diverse team of just over 50 strong, located in London, Sofia and Bangalore.

Your role: You’ll be a passionate engineer who is near the beginning of your career to join our team based in London. This is a part-time position, at two days per week on a 6-month fixed term contract.

Day to day you will:

• You will work in a team to deliver great software whilst learning and developing your own skills and knowledge.

• You’ll work closely with other engineers and a Principal, who will all be there to help, support and grow you.

• You’ll interact, communicate and collaborate with the engineers based across all our locations.

What we’re looking for from you:

• You’re an engineer with a passion for learning and self development.

• You have a good working knowledge of at least one coding language, understand the basic principles of build tools and automated deployment and know what good code looks like.

• You understand the importance of testing, writing clean code and collaboration.

• You’ll have an attitude that is keen and open for growth and learning.

• You will be contributing to production systems very quickly and be mentored by your peers and team members, you’ll happily ask for help and will receive feedback positively.

You’ll find these skills useful in this role:

• A passion for learning and self-improvement

• Any JavaScript / TypeScript or WordPress/PHP experience

• Any Test Driven Development experience or using test frameworks like Jest

• Any experience with AWS or other cloud platforms

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Life at News

At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.