Description

Guardian Media Group (GMG) is a leading global media organisation, the publisher of the Guardian, which celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2021, the Observer and the Guardian.com, which attracts over 200 million global unique browsers each month. We are renowned for our ground-breaking independent journalism and our award-winning digital products.

We are recruiting a Scala Developer to join our exciting digital team.

About the role

• You’ll be programming in Scala, running in AWS, but we use the tool that best fits the solution.
• You won’t be coding in isolation - our culture is strongly collaborative, whether pair programming with other developers or working closely with editorial and commercial colleagues.
• Sometimes deciding what code to write is as hard as writing the code itself. As a Software Developer you’ll be consulted in product decisions as well as technical ones.

About you

• As a back end software developer, you’ll be equally willing to dive into a purely functional and composable back-end code or work with a variety of database and streaming technologies. You don't have to be an expert in everything, as long as you are eager to learn.
• You are a creative, passionate, and intelligent person who loves web technologies.
• You are excited by the opportunity to shape the future of digital journalism.

What we offer

• Flexible working (see below for details)
• Generous pension scheme; if you contribute 5% then the Guardian will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age)
• Mental and Physical Health insurance and dental scheme
• 26 days annual leave and the option to purchase an extra 5 days
• Up to 18 weeks of parental leave at full pay
• Multi-faith prayer room
• Cycle to work scheme and subsidised gym membership
• Paid volunteering days
• Annual season ticket loan

More about flexible working

We encourage flexible working to better balance the needs of the company and employees as their circumstances change over time, and in order to attract and retain a diverse team. No two situations are identical, so please discuss with us at or before the offer stage. In order to help applicants, here are some broad guidelines of the level of flexibility we are able to give for remote working.

If you are full time and wish to work at home, expect to be required to work in the office while you get up to speed, and then at least 60% time in the office after that in order to maintain a relationship with the wider team. In the long term it may be possible to go as low as 1 day a week.

We strive for transparency in remuneration. The salary for new developers at the Guardian is £49.6k.

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds, different lived experiences and different perspectives. A diverse team means we can better reflect and engage our global audience.

We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool, and also in including them, fostering a culture where people’s voices can be heard and our employees look forward to coming to work.

Application instructions:

To apply for this position you must already have the right to work in the UK.

Our interview process involves two stages: a face to face interview and a pairing test.

All interview stages are currently being conducted remotely.

Find out more about our hiring process here.

Post source:jobs.theguardian.com

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Name:GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA

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