| Description | Salary: £75000 to £95000 Benefits: Private health insurance Nest pension scheme competitive holiday allowance home office equipment and more Experience: minimum seven years in a related role of which two in a team lead/management role Type: f/t (37.5hrs) or p/t (4-day week 32hrs) and flexitime policy Location: Remote (occasional travel to London) About the role We are looking to augment our fully-remote multi-disciplinary product development and engineering team with a Senior Software Engineer / Dev Team Lead (or Deputy Team Lead) who relishes crafting elegant solutions to hard technical and business problems using whatever is the best tool for the job. The successful candidate will support our dev team in furthering our mission to provide access to the best journalism from a wide plurality of sources. Please note: candidates who apply may alternatively be considered for a Senior Software Engineer / Deputy Dev Team Lead position. You and your skills 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 of e.g. Perl Python C/C++ Go Rust NodeJS Java and a language-agnostic attitude Have experience of 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 Have experience with containerised workloads using Docker Bring a strong appetite for learning new skills and be open to new technologies but not a slave to them Have two years experience of training mentoring and running teams on a sprint system and be willing to lead or deputise The right candidate will also have understanding and experience of at least 3 of the following: Natural language processing Designing and implementing distributed or large-scale systems MySQL/SQL database design query optimisation Using or evaluating ML models in Keras Tensorflow or Torch Basic web development skills e.g. 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 Responsibilities Leading supporting and motivating the development team Helping allocate 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 Fostering a collaborative environment and exploratory approach Monitoring assessing and reporting on team progress and performance Design build and implementation Developing and maintaining a detailed understanding of and striving to become an authority on all NewsNow's 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 resolving production outages On-the-job training will be provided on the specific application of these technologies in our stack. About NewsNow NewsNow is 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 NewsNow.co.uk. Founded in 1997 to democratise and disrupt the market for news NewsNow has 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 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 Types: Full-time Part-time Permanent Pay: From £75000.00 per year Benefits: Company pension Flexitime Private medical insurance Work from home Schedule: Monday to Friday Work Location: Remote |