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About the Role

The Senior Software Developer will play a critical role in developing and operating the production platform used daily by multimedia teams at The Guardian to create and publish audio and video content. You will work on in-house applications and integrations, the AWS infrastructure and automation behind them, and the media management systems that underpin them. You will collaborate with engineers, editorial users, infrastructure teams, and external vendors to keep the platform reliable, secure, and scalable.

Responsibilities

Collate, design, develop, configure, test and release high quality software that supports the evolving requirements of the multimedia editorial teams.
Build and operate event-driven services and integrations on AWS, ensuring solutions delivered are reliable, supportable and maintainable.
Maintain the AWS infrastructure and automation behind the platform, including compute, storage, networking and media-processing services.
Perform technology upgrades and ensure architectural stability across the platform.
Diagnose and fix bugs in a timely manner based on priority, using log-based troubleshooting and performance analysis.
Work with editorial stakeholders and, with guidance from the Multimedia Tech Product Manager, ensure systems continue to meet their needs and evolve the roadmap as required.
Proactively share knowledge, peer-review colleagues’ work and contribute to clear technical documentation.

Requirements

Proven experience as a software developer, systems engineer or similar role, building and operating production systems.
Strong programming ability in at least one modern language in the platform stack, with the aptitude to become productive across others.
Experience with REST API design and integration with third-party platforms.
Hands-on experience with AWS (or an equivalent cloud platform), including compute, storage, networking and IAM.
Experience designing event-driven, asynchronous systems on AWS (e.g. Lambda, SQS, webhook-driven integrations) and an understanding of the failure modes of distributed processing.
Confident working in Linux environments: command line, systemd, networking, performance tuning and log-based troubleshooting.
Familiarity with standard engineering workflow: Git, pull requests, code review and CI/CD pipelines.
A practical security mindset around patching, dependency hygiene and least-privilege access.
Collaborative approach, with a willingness to share knowledge, peer-review work and support colleagues.
Understanding of, or strong interest in, multimedia production workflows.

Skills

Go
TypeScript
React
Electron
AWS
REST API
Linux
Git
CI/CD

Location

Kings Cross

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Minimum salary for any full-time role is £30,000 per annum. Salary ranges are dependent on skills and experience.

Benefits

30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
Generous pension scheme: contribute 5% and we will contribute 8-12%.
2 volunteering days annually.
Option of payroll giving.
Season ticket loans.
Private healthcare.
Life cover.
Income protection.
Eye tests.
Optional dental insurance.
Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies.
IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy support.
Access to employee benefits platform for health and wellbeing support.
Free yoga and pilates classes.
Corporate gym membership.
Cycle to work scheme.

About the Company

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism and holds power to account.
Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.
We became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.

Equal Opportunity

We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people.
We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future.
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply.
It is important to us that you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process, in order to perform your best.
Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs.