Overview
As a Full Stack Engineer, you will play a key role in building reliable, scalable, and efficient solutions that power our platforms. You'll thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining a strong attention to detail.
Responsibilities
* Design and build well-crafted, resilient applications that remain highly performant at scale and secure in production.
* Collaborate within a cross-functional, lean team, taking ownership of your deliverables while working closely with journalists, developers, and wider technology teams across the newsroom.
* Contribute to the team's technical direction and help enhance its tools, workflows and engineering practices.
* Work with stakeholders to elicit requirements, and ensure there is enough information available to progress with development.
* Champion high engineering standards and bring a mindset of continuous improvement and innovation to what you build.
* Bring a passion for automation and simplifying processes to optimise feature delivery.
* Take an active role in key team activities such as planning, estimation and refinement.
* Embrace working with a broad and evolving technology stack, including JavaScript, NodeJS, React, Circle CI, Docker/Podman. Demonstrate solid commercial experience and understanding of JavaScript, NodeJS, React with experience applying OOP paradigms in building scalable applications.
* Strong understanding of web architecture, including performance, scalability, security, and resilience, with experience optimising web applications.
* Proficiency with CI/CD tools (e.g., CircleCI, GCP buildpacks), orchestration and containerisation technologies (Docker).
* Testing framework experience (e.g., Cypress or Playwright) and experience with testing methodologies, including unit-testing.
* Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud or AWS, e.g., Cloud Functions, Cloud Run.
* Hands-on expertise with mapping platforms such as MapTiler and Leaflet would be a plus.
* Experience working with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB) would be beneficial.
* Comfortable working within Agile methodologies (Scrum, Lean, Kanban), with a collaborative approach and the ability to work independently, take initiative, and deliver to tight deadlines.
* Strong communication skills and enthusiasm for innovation, with the ability to explain and challenge ideas.
Company & Culture
Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Sky News team at the heart of the newsroom, where diverse technologies, disciplines, and skill sets come together in a dynamic and creative environment. Based at Sky Studios, you’ll work alongside our 24-hour live TV studios, editorial teams across broadcast, digital and audio platforms. The team delivers a diverse range of technology solutions across multiple digital and broadcast platforms.
Benefits
* Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
* The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
* A generous pension package
* Private healthcare
* Discounted mobile and broadband
* A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
Inclusion & Work Style
We are a Disability Confident Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can. We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. Please note that due to the nature of this role, it incorporates a 45 hour working week.
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. There are shuttle buses, bike facilities, and on-campus amenities including subsidised restaurants, gym, cinema and more. We value inventive, forward-thinking minds and a collaborative environment across Tech, Product and Data at Sky.
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