News UK Hiring for Java Developer Job at Remote Full Time

Java Software Engineer

Remote

We are: News UK is 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 including talkSPORT, VirginRadio, talkRADIO and TimesRadio.

Your team; MAIN a backend platform team that constantly strives to be the benchmark in subscriptions technology and actively engaged in the evolution of our platform across our Identity, Access, and Monetisation domains. Underpinning our consumer products to provide their users the right content with the right value proposition at the right time, irrespective of granularity.

There is a lot of excitement around the future possibilities this critical and highly visible platform has to offer, with huge potential.

Your role: Software Engineer. We are looking for a talented and passionate Software Engineer to join our team.

Day to day you will: As a Software Engineer you’ll be a key component of a team delivering quality software. You’ll interact with product owners and stakeholders, contribute to the technical conversations and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose. You’ll report to a Principal Engineer and will help him/her deliver on the technical strategy. You’ll mentor other engineers to bring them up to your standard.

What we’re looking for from you: You’re a true engineer with a passion for well crafted clean and tested code, you understand agile methodologies and enjoy collaboration. You lead by example, encouraging your peers to constantly improve. You have a continuous improvement mindset.

You love engineering and constantly want to learn more. You understand the value of and are a practitioner of TDD/BDD and DevOps. You are an expert in Java (Spring) and perhaps some other languages too.

Life at News UK

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.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £38,863.00-£62,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Casual dress
• Childcare
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Free or subsidised travel
• Gym membership
• Life insurance
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discounts
• Wellness programmes
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift