Job Specifications
hackajob is collaborating with The Telegraph to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.
Software Engineer, App - Back End
Title: Software Engineer
Department: Technology
Reporting line: Engineering Manager
For over 160 years, The Telegraph’s stories, dispatches, interviews, and investigations have set the
agenda, sparked debate, and provided generations of readers with a trusted source of news,
information, and opinion.
In 2018, TMG set out a bold vision to become a subscription-first business with the goal to reach one
million subscriptions by 2023, which we have achieved. We wouldn’t be one of the world's most
successful media organisations without the talent, determination, and creative spirit of our people. As
our readers’ needs evolve, it's more important than ever that we recruit original thinkers and
innovative individuals who can keep us at the forefront of our industry. That means not only
journalists but also marketers, analysts, designers, engineers, and much more.
We want to foster the diversity of thought through our people, and create inclusive working
environments that allow everyone to be their authentic selves at work while creating a sense of
belonging to ensure we have the highest-performing teams.
Our Benefits
The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and
interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here. From dynamic working
opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced
paternity/partner leave), to life assurance, and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of
flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Training and development
With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and
development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional
skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.
Our commitment to inclusion
We want you to feel you belong here and welcome candidates from all backgrounds. Our organisation
is on a continuous journey to achieve this sense of belonging, with focused inclusion policies, training,
and internal networks. We believe it’s not only the right thing to do but that there’s a strong business
case to support it. Because if you feel you belong, you’ll feel more comfortable, so you’ll be more likely
to achieve your best.
We have a number of internal networks that are totally inclusive and open for anyone to join. These
include internal inclusion networks covering employees from ethnic minority backgrounds, working
families, LGBTQ+, disabilities and long-term conditions, gender, well-being, and women in tech.
Your well-being is paramount, so we have trained over 100 Mental Health First Aiders in the last two
years to help support our employees.
The Government Disability Confident employer scheme helps identify employers who are actively
committing to inclusion and diversity in the workplace. The Telegraph Media Group has been certified
as a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, for our work in recruiting, retaining and developing disabled
staff.
Role purpose and overview
At the Telegraph, we build an amazing, engaging, fast, reliable and secure digital product (website and
app) that showcases our journalism, encourages subscription and makes that process as seamless as
possible.
As a back-end engineer working on the App, your primary purpose will be to develop backend domain
software applying modern best practices to deliver quality user experiences to support the Telegraph's
product and subscription strategies.
Our Engineering principles are based on BUILD it, RUN it, OWN it.
You will ensure your code is delivered to the highest standard in line with the product goals, on time
and within budget, and you will be part of the rota to provide technical support for the systems in
production.
You will collaborate in the development of our performance and verification pipelines, and the cloud
infrastructure required to run these, with the constant aim of full automation.
You will collaborate with other engineers, sharing your knowledge and experience.
Above all, you’ll want to make The Telegraph better, which may sometimes involve challenging the
status quo.
Key Responsibilities
You Will:
Contribute to the design and development of robust, maintainable backend systems and
microservices for a mobile application, ensuring scalability and performance, and adopting
modern best practices in your designs and implementations.
Work closely within a cross-functional team of Delivery Managers, Business Analysts and
Engineers while collaborating with Product Managers and Designers to ship product features,
translating business requirements into actionable engineering tasks.
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