Senior Scala Developer
Guardian Media Group (GMG) is a leading global media organisation, the publisher of the Guardian, which celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2021, the Observer and the Guardian.com, which attracts over 200 million global unique browsers each month. We are renowned for our ground breaking independent journalism and our award-winning digital products.
That is where you come in.
We are looking for a Senior Scala Developer to join our growing team.
About the role
- You’ll mostly be programming in Scala, running in AWS, but we use the tool that best fits the problem.
- You’ll be working in a cross-functional team, which is empowered to rapidly iterate and release new features.
- You won’t be coding in isolation - our culture is strongly collaborative, whether pair programming with other developers or working closely with editorial and commercial colleagues.
About You
As a Scala Developer, you’ll be equally willing to dive into a purely functional and composable Scala back-end or work with a variety of database and streaming technologies.
- You inspire the people you work with, and are inspired by them in return.
- You contribute to the direction of your team's products.
- You are passionate about spreading engineering best practice beyond your immediate team.
You can see the full job description here
What we offer
- Flexible working (see below for details)
- Generous pension scheme; if you contribute 5% then the Guardian will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age)
- Mental and Physical Health insurance and dental scheme
- 28 days annual leave per annum (increasing to 30 in FY 23/24)
- Up to 18 weeks of parental leave at full pay
- Multi-faith prayer room
- Cycle to work scheme and subsidised gym membership
- Paid volunteering days
- Annual season ticket loan
Happy to talk flexible working
We are a remote-friendly company.
We see real value in face-to-face collaboration but we also understand the benefits of working remotely and the flexibility this offers.
In particular, we want to build diverse and inclusive teams, where everyone can do their best work.
Different roles carry different expectations, and for the role for which you’re applying, we’d typically expect to see you in the office, on average, twice a month/one day per week.If you want to come in a lot more than that, that’s great too.
We also support a variety of flexible working requests.
We strive for transparency in remuneration. The salary for new senior developers at the Guardian is £65.2k.
We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds, different lived experiences and different perspectives. A diverse team means we can better reflect and engage our global audience. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool, and also in including them, fostering a culture where people’s voices can be heard and our employees look forward to coming to work.
Application instructions:
To apply please upload your CV. You must already have the right to work in the UK.
Our interview process involves 2 stages: a face to face interview and a pairing test, we are currently running the interview process remotely.
Find out more about our hiring process here
About Us
We value and respect all differences in all people (seen and unseen) at the Guardian. We aspire to 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. The Guardian actively encourages applications from BAME candidates.
At The Guardian, many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements.