Software Engineer III Birmingham

We are an organisation that exists to drive progress. That’s the “red thread” that connects everyone at The Economist Group (TEG). Our businesses share a devotion to innovation, independence and rigour in their fields of expertise. We empower people to understand and tackle the critical challenges and changes facing the world. Our analytical rigour, global expertise and evidence-based insights enable individuals and organisations to make sense of these shifts and chart a course through them. We deliver analysis and insights in many formats to subscribers and clients in 170 countries through our four businesses, The Economist, Economist Impact, Economist Intelligence and Economist Education, which uphold our global reputation for excellence and integrity.

We are looking for a Mid Level Software Engineer to join our Web team. Our mission is to grow our core user base by helping new and existing audiences to discover and engage with a wider breadth of our content through a fast and intuitive web experience. economist.com is an essential window into our outstanding content, video and audio and we’re growing our engineering team to help our users discover and read more of our content and importantly, to keep coming back. We practise an agile process, which allows us to ship small and fast getting features into the hands of customers quickly. We trust our engineers to ship high-quality code, removing barriers between the subject matter experts, product, and engineering. Our aim is to get you shipping in your first week.

At The Economist Group we believe having the right work-life balance is super important; striking a balance between your personal and professional life is critical to wellbeing and happiness. We offer flexible working and have a 'remote first' working policy with a minimum expectation of coming to the Birmingham office two days a month – however, you can come in more often if you wish to.

How you’ll contribute

• Take technical responsibility for all stages in the software development life-cycle
• Apply and uphold team-based standards for programming tools and techniques and advise on their application
• Make pragmatic decisions about technical trade-offs within your code
• Design, write and deliver software aligned with the strategic direction of the business
• Work within, and encourage a DevOps culture and Continuous Delivery process
• Take ownership of your personal development, be curious and eager to learn
• Work within Next.js and React apps, deploying into AWS
• Help shape and deliver our varied quarterly roadmaps
• Help the team get well defined tasks from backlog to production
• Maintain documentation on our applications, making it easy for future engineers to interact with our systems and code
• Regularly contribute openly to team meetings (and encouraging others to do so)
• Champion the health, quality and observability of our projects
• Ship to production on your first day!

Who you are

• Experience using React in production
• Experience in unit testing
• Knowledge of optimising website performance and accessibility
• Knowledge of software testing
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Experience working within agile cross-functional product teams
• A desire to learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone
• Experience using the Next.js framework is desirable but not essential
• Experience in developing on cloud infrastructure (AWS) is desirable

Please consider applying for this role even if you don’t think you match all of the above attributes. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, apply today.

What we offer

We offer excellent benefits including an incentive programme, generous annual and parental leave policies, volunteering days and well-being support throughout the year, as well as free access to all Economist content. Country specific benefits are also offered.

Our Values

Our values are a collective set of beliefs and behaviours that strengthen The Economist Group's purpose and demonstrate where we want to be as an organisation. They reflect on our mission to pursue progress for individuals, organisations and the world.

• Independence: We are not bound to any party or interest and encourage exploration and free-thinking. We champion freedom, both within our organisation and around the world.
• Integrity: We are bold in our efforts to uncover the truth and stand up for what we believe in. We inspire trust through our rigour, fact-checking and transparency.
• Excellence: We aspire to the highest standards in all we do. We are ambitious and inquisitive in our pursuit of continuous progress and innovation.
• Inclusivity: We value diversity in thought and background and encourage healthy debate with a breadth of perspectives. We treat our colleagues and customers fairly and respectfully.
• Openness: We foster a collaborative and empathetic culture conducive to the interests, wit and initiative of our colleagues. New ideas are our lifeblood.

The Economist Group values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our colleagues and potential colleagues regardless of ethnic origin, national origin, gender, gender identity, race, colour, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, age, marital status or any other status.