JavaScript (FE/NODE/REACT) Developer

Location: Harmsworth Media Headquarters – 9 Derry Street, Kensington, London, W8 5HY
Position: Permanent 

Workplace type: Remote - However, There must instead be a willingness to travel to London office for the first week and occasionally for team meetups.

Provisional Start Date: Monday 2nd October 2024

Package Description

 Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s some of what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution. 
• Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

 

Job Introduction

Harmsworth Media is looking for a JavaScript developer to join the inews.co.uk web development team. This team is tasked with building and maintaining systems that deliver editorial content, subscription experiences and advertising to our end users.

 

Main Responsibilities

• You will work in a small team of software engineers who are responsible for the design, building, and optimization of our digital products.
• At our enterprise-level, we require that our code be scalable, efficient, and organized.
• You will be involved in all stages of our development process. From proof-of-concept to development, to retrospective analysis.
• Candidates must have a solid foundation in JavaScript and knowledge of client-side browser behaviour.
• We also are looking for team members who care about code craftsmanship, are cooperative during code reviews, and overall willing to improve and expand their skill set.

 

 Person Specification

Technologies: 

• js / NPM
• ReactJS / NextJS
• Google Analytics GA4
• Google Ad Manager, Prebid.js, Consent Management
• Content paywalls like Piano
• Build tools such as Webpack
• Unit and integration testing (e.g., Karma, Mocha)
• WordPress Rest API

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience writing modern, performant front-end JavaScript in vanilla and react
• Hands on experience with integrating with content and subscription experience platforms such as Piano.io or Zephr
• Be a strong problem-solver
• Excellent communication skills owing to a hybrid role within a distributed development team.
• Ability to independently see a project from beginning to end
• Knowledge of Core Web Vitals and the importance of them
• Good understanding of how to debug and profile Chrome DevTools
• Strong understanding of Git and VCS principles.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of Agile methodology and project planning tools like JIRA
• Experience with DFP, header bidding and TCFv2 / GDPR guidelines.
• Experience with server side Node.js, SSR React, Express and NextJS frameworks.
• Experience with WordPress and WP-JSON for CMS integrations.

 

About dmg::media

dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, i, MailOnline, Mail Plus, metro.co.uk and inews.co.uk reach more than 11m people daily in the UK.* Globally, our brands reach 180m unique browsers every month.** In March 2021, the business acquired the world’s leading science title, New Scientist.  

dmg media’s newsbrands are expert at getting to the bottom of the stories most relevant to their readers.

 

*PAMCo 1 2020  ** Omniture April 2021

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.