Senior JavaScript Engineer (6 Month Fixed Term Contract) in London

At Immediate, we’re home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food and Gardeners World. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps and live events. We’re the destination for people looking to get more from the things they love. We help inspire them; deepening their knowledge, skills and fuelling their passions, to enjoy more of what life has to offer.

About the role

You’ll be working on Fabric, our digital publishing platform, to design and build scalable APIs and AI powered text, audio and video content services, that integrate internal systems with third party platforms. Reporting to the Lead UI Developer, the Senior JavaScript Engineer will be expected to develop, maintain, and support our digital products in accordance with the business and technology objectives.

As a Senior JavaScript Engineer, you will:

• Immerse yourself in our technical ecosystem
• Develop and test new features, and support existing ones
• Build reusable code, packages and libraries for future use
• Optimise code for maximum speed and scalability against an agreed performance budget
• Use testing frameworks to ensure automated test coverage for platform functionality
• Collaborate with other team members Delivery Manager and Product Owner to help plan new functionality or major enhancements
• Write and improve technical documentation when necessary

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing JavaScript APIs and services using Node.js and TypeScript
• Working with Node/TypeScript within large-scale projects
• Distributed systems, scalability and cloud architecture (preferably AWS)
• Building and working with mixed data formats (structured and unstructured) and storage (e.g. blob storage, MySQL, Document Storage)
• Building and integrating with RAG pipelines
• Building and maintaining multi-step workflows and processes orchestrated by AI
• LLM integration patterns
• Implementing AI solutions using AWS, or an equivalent, such as:
• Model access and orchestration e.g. Amazon Bedrock
• Vector and semantic search e.g. Amazon OpenSearch

Benefits:

• A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival
• Immediate Community webinars, well-being initiatives and Mental Health First aiders
• 25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday. Our offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s which are in addition to your annual entitlement
• Tailored training and development through our Love Learning platform
• A progressive and transparent culture with clear career progression
• Flexible / hybrid working plus early finish Fridays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced Family Policies including paternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also provide a pregnancy loss, fertility, and carers policy
• Competitive pension plans and Life Assurance
• A newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces

We pride ourselves on our open, collaborative, and dynamic culture. This encourages our people to thrive, and give their best whilst being supported, developed, and nurtured. As we care about our people, our environment, and the impact we make, we have an active Diversity & Inclusion network, comprehensive well-being programmes, and clear sustainability strategies.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of all our values and leadership behaviours to ensure Immediate remains a place where everyone feels included and empowered:

• We care
• We succeed together
• We enjoy the ride
• We are bold
• We never settle
• We get on with it

People are at the heart of our business and creating a diverse and inclusive working environment is extremely important to us. Immediate is an equal opportunities employer. We’ll never treat anyone less favourably because of their sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marital/civil partnerships, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief or disability. We’re also committed to supporting applications from those who are returning to work following a career break, maternity leave or caring responsibilities.