Full Stack Engineer (JavaScript), UK-based - US hours in Aberdeen

Important note: This role is for US hours. 9-5pm PT (5pm-1am UK).

FlatPlan is the leading Apple News technology and strategy provider, working with 230+ consumer publishers including The Atlantic, The Athletic, Vox Media and the Premier League. We're a preferred provider to Apple, helping the world's biggest publishers reach hundreds of millions of readers through Apple News and beyond. We're profitable, growing, and scaling sanely: a sharp team doing meaningful work at pace.

The Role

We're hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join our engineering team, working US hours to give us coverage across our customer base. You'll ship features across our platform: integrations with major publishers, our customer dashboard, content parsing pipelines, and proofs of concept that push what Apple News can do. On any given day you might be building a liveblog integration for a global sports brand, debugging a delivery issue during a breaking news story, or prototyping something new with a feature Apple has just released to us.

We expect you to be fluent with AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent) and to use them daily, for writing code, reviewing PRs, triaging bugs and finding ways to ship faster.

What You'll Own

• Feature delivery across our Node.js backend, React dashboard, and parsing layer
• Customer-facing integrations for some of the world's biggest publishers
• Proofs of concept for new platforms and Apple News capabilities
• Clean, well-documented code with polished handovers
• Bringing AI-assisted approaches into how we build, review and ship

What We're Looking For

Must-haves:

• 4+ years commercial experience as a developer
• Strong Node.js and React, with deep modern JavaScript fundamentals
• Daily, practical use of AI coding tools in your workflow
• Solid grasp of HTML5, modern CSS, and DOM manipulation
• AWS experience: deployment, configuration, sensible operational instincts
• Comfortable in git workflows and agile teams
• US hours availability (9am–5pm PT, equivalent to 5pm–1am UK)

Nice-to-haves:

• Publishing or media background
• Experience with content parsing (Cheerio or similar)
• MongoDB
• Exposure to Apple News Format (we'll train you regardless)

Who We Are

FlatPlan is a small, lean team with backgrounds at Stripe, New York Times Company and Apple. We're fully remote but intentional about connection: randomised social 1:1s, Friday socials, a virtual office and optional UK meet-ups twice a year. We share knowledge openly and regularly, and genuinely care about each other.

We're profitable, founded in 2019, and backed by TinySeed. Our relationship with Apple runs deep: we're their preferred provider for Apple News, and following a period of assessment, a direct supplier to Apple.

We want this team to reflect the breadth of the publishers and audiences we serve. We strongly encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. All qualified candidates will be considered regardless of race, gender, identity, orientation, disability or background.

No agencies. Any emails from agencies will be marked as spam.