Senior Software Engineer / Dev Team Lead (ID: IzrEq76U)

We are looking for a fully remote Senior Software Engineer / Dev Team Lead to take overall day-to-day operational responsibility for the uptime of the News platform and for leading our small dev team in efficiently shipping product improvements that deliver business impact both commercially and in respect of our mission to provide the public with world-leading news aggregation services.

The right candidate will:

• Be highly numerate and analytical, backed by a mathematics, computer science, stats, or physics degree (or equivalent experience)
• Have excellent high-level language coding skills in any e.g. Perl, Python, C/C++, Go, Rust, NodeJS, Java, and a language-agnostic attitude
• Have experience with Perl, Python 3, and NodeJS and a willingness to work with these or learn them fast
• Have strong scripting skills (Bash, Perl, Python)
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to engage authoritatively in technical discussions around the specifications of projects
• Be confident with Linux server/system administration (e.g. package installation/configuration, upgrades to distribution and kernels, filesystems, and volume management)
• Have experience running containerised workloads using Docker or K8s
• Be expert-level at Root Cause Analysis
• Bring a strong appetite for learning new skills and technologies. Expert at researching and becoming adept in new or unfamiliar technologies.
• Have two years experience of in training and running teams to deliver on time and on budget
• Be willing to drive the team from the front and be accountable for its performance

The right candidate will also have an understanding and experience of at least 3 of the following, and be capable of learning the rest as needed:

• Distributed or large-scale systems
• MySQL/SQL database design, query optimisation, and admin
• Web development in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue/React
• Apache web server software and related modules
• Cloud platforms and concepts (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Setup, testing and administration of CI/CD pipelines
• Networking and firewalling
• Natural language processing

Senior Software Engineer Responsibilities:

Leading, driving, and motivating the development team

• Allocating work to individual developers, keeping a focus on business priorities and how they further the company’s mission
• Supporting team members in their work and learning
• Driving and reporting on team performance and execution
• Motivating the team to keep the momentum high and the focus on delivery

Design, build, and implementation

• Developing and maintaining a detailed understanding of, and striving to become an authority on, all our systems and languages
• Scoping, designing, and developing across frontend and especially backend subsystems
• Upholding standards (e.g. in maintainability, security, scalability, efficiency)
• Squashing all the bugs other developers cannot

Contributing towards monitoring, maintenance, and administration of our production stack

• Dell R630/R640 servers running Debian Linux and containerised workloads (Docker Swarm)
• Replicated databases (MySQL) and volume management using LVM and ZFS
• Firewall (iptables/nftables) and dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF)
• Participation in on-call rotation, and providing third-line support with overall responsibility for resolving production outages.

On-the-job training will be provided on the specific application of these technologies in our stack.

About Us:

A rare UK-based .com success story: a news organisation using technology to support and promote credible, independent, and public interest journalism, via the extremely successful news aggregation and discovery platform.

Founded in 1997 to democratise and disrupt the market for news, we have since become a global top 50 news website with millions of loyal users who discover news from thousands of publishers.

Our Culture:

• Open: we share and collaborate within and across departments
• Rigorous: We like to be clear about what we're doing, and why. Experimentation and peer review are in our DNA
• One team, one vision: no office politics
• An appreciative environment: expect to hear 'thanks' a lot
• Room to grow: development of skills and responsibilities is encouraged and rewarded
• Virtual: we are today a fully-remote company with occasional in-person get-togethers
• Family-friendly and flexible: we offer flexible working, and understand sometimes personal needs come first

Apply Now:

If you are a Senior Software Engineer with Dev Team Lead experience and this interests you, get in touch and tell us about yourself. We’re hiring continuously so there’s never a bad time to say hello.

Job Type: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £90,000.00-£100,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

• Yearly bonus

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Private medical insurance
• Work from home
• Private health insurance,
• Nest pension scheme
• competitive holiday allowance
• home office equipment and more

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)
• Work Location: Remote (occasional travel to London)
• Experience: minimum seven years in a related role, of which two in a team lead/management role  
• Senior Software Engineer / Dev Team Lead:  Full Time 37.5 hours  per week, or Part time 4 days, 32 hours per week - Flexible working policy