News UK Hiring for Principal / Lead Java Software Engineer Job at Remote Full Time

Principal Java Software Engineer

Remote UK

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.

We are Technology: a department that has people and product at its heart. Lead by Christina Scott CTO of the Year (Tech Leaders) 2017, who comes with many years’ experience transforming technology in media companies. Christina has set out our vision of ‘passionate and trusted experts creating industry-leading solutions through attracting and developing the best talent’.

Your team; MAIN a backend product team that constantly strives to be the benchmark in subscriptions technology and actively engage in the transformation from legacy architecture to a new PaaS (Platform as a Service). We’re looking to create a new identity, access and monetisation platform to allow companies 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 possibilities this critical and highly visible project has to offer, with huge potential.

Your role: as a Principal Software Engineer you will be leading a small close-knit cross functional team, reporting to the Head of Engineering.

Day to day you will: work alongside our engineers, product owners and stakeholders to lead and steer the technical conversations and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose. Working with the Head of Engineering, you’ll be responsible for the technical strategy as well as helping with hiring, growing and running our team.

As one of the primary audiences for our platform will be other developers, focusing on their developer experience (DX) by automating repetitive tasks for integrations of new clients will be vital.

There’ll also be several cross-functional concerns such as orchestrating microservices, improving time to deployment, and reducing infrastructure costs with our metrics for success centred on sustainable delivery of change for the business.

What we’re looking for from you: You’re a true engineer with a passion for well crafted clean and tested code, considering everything from architecture and security to performance. You understand agile methodologies and enjoy collaboration. You lead by example, encouraging your peers to constantly improve. You have a continuous improvement mindset and are proactive in driving positive change, encouraging those around you to do the same.

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. Some knowledge of Go is an advantage. if you don’t have any experience in Gol we will teach you.

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: £80,129.00-£104,470.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday