The Guardian Work For Us

The Guardian is one of the world’s biggest liberal news organisations. We are renowned for our groundbreaking independent journalism, our award-winning digital products and excellent engineering team.

We create our award-winning website using modern JavaScript and CSS patterns, always considering progressive-enhancement, performance, scalability, browser compatibility, and user experience. We serve tens of thousands of requests per second from our services mostly written in Scala and running on AWS.

We are now looking for Full Stack Developers to join our growing team. The majority of our code is openly available on GitHub, and some of our projects are widely used throughout the Open Source community.

The Full Stack Developer role

• As a full stack engineer, you’ll be equally willing to dive into a purely functional and composable Scala back-end, or a complex JavaScript front-end (using Flow, TypeScript, Angular, React etc)
• As a developer on the team, you will have 2 years commercial experience
• You won’t necessarily be an expert in everything, but you’ll be eager to learn
• You are a creative, passionate, and intelligent person who loves web technologies
• Your interests go beyond just your team’s objectives; you are curious about where the organisation is moving as a whole
• You can make reasoned choices regarding what technologies to use and when to use them.

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

We strive for transparency in remuneration. The salary for new developers at The Guardian is £49.6k

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.

More about flexible working

We are a remote-friendly company.

We see real value in face-to-face collaboration and 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.If you want to come in a lot more than that, that’s great too. 

We also support a variety of flexible working requests.

Application instructions:

To apply please upload your CV. You must already have the right to work in the UK.

Our interview process involves two stages: a face to face interview and a pairing test. All interview stages are currently being run 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.