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

Job Description

Software Engineer – Customer Platforms

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 Times Radio.

We are Technology: a department that has people and product at its heart. We use technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of journalism and storytelling. We proudly are part of TechCharterUK as over 27% of our Tech roles are filled by gender minorities.

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: Customer Platforms a 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) platform. We are responsible for subscription applications that support News UK brand portfolios and enable areas such as identity, access, subscription products, billing and account management. Our Project Managers lead delivery through cross-functional teams and/or external development partners to create the best outcomes for our audience and our business.

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 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.

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 language (preferably Java or Go), understand the 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. More than that you’ll have an attitude that is keen and open for growth and learning.

As a Software Engineer you’ll be contributing to production systems very quickly and be mentored by your peers and team members. You’ll happily ask for help, will receive feedback positively and will guide more junior members of the team.

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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.

Tech achievements

We’re committed to promoting the brilliant talent we have in Tech by entering regular awards. So far we’ve been successfully shortlisted for almost everything we’ve entered, being recognised for our diversity & inclusion, DevOps, data, user experience, product innovation, rising stars etc.

As well as awards, in FY22 we also committed to attend, sponsor and present at various conferences, and become members at leading industry associations, to ensure our colleagues have the best opportunities to learn and network with the best in the industry.