Full Stack Engineer (Scala/TypeScript/React)

Staff Full Stack Developer (Scala / TypeScript / React) | 📍 London (1 day per week onsite) | 💸 Up to £625/day (Inside IR35 via Umbrella) | 6-month contract

I'm working with one of the world's best-known independent news organisations, and they're looking for a Staff-level Full Stack Developer to help shape the technical direction of the web platform behind their journalism.

What you'll be doing

• Helping set the long-term technical vision and strategy for the web platform
• Acting as a go-to technical authority across the engineering community, raising standards and improving ways of working
• Leading collaborative projects with web engineers, product designers, UX and product leads
• Building mostly in TypeScript (React, Emotion) on the front end and Scala on the back end, running in AWS
• Working in an empowered, cross-functional team that iterates and ships quickly
• Pairing and collaborating closely with developers, editorial and commercial colleagues
• Weighing in on product decisions as well as technical ones

What they're looking for

• 10+ years' experience building for the web
• A track record of leading teams and significant projects in a fast-moving, product-led digital environment
• Experience building and maintaining high-traffic, high-performance platforms with wide organisational impact
• Comfort working across a modern TypeScript/React front end and a Scala back end (you don't need to be an expert in everything, but you should be keen to learn)
• Confidence turning product and business requirements into technical solutions
• Hands-on experience applying security best practice