Software Engineer 3

Overview

As a Mid-level Software Engineer on the Web team, you help grow economist.com’s audience by delivering fast, accessible web experiences. You will work with a cross-functional group to ship incremental features that improve reader engagement and retention. You’ll contribute across the stack, owning parts of the development lifecycle and making pragmatic trade-offs. This role combines frontend and backend work in React/Next.js on AWS, with an emphasis on quality, performance, and collaboration. You’ll join a culture that values ownership, learning, and delivering meaningful impact.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension or 401(k) plan
• Private health insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (counselling and wellbeing resources)
• Work From Anywhere up to 25 days/year
• Generous annual and parental leave
• Volunteer and moving home days off

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and deliver software aligned with product and business goals
• Take increasing ownership across the software development lifecycle from refinement to deployment and support
• Contribute to frontend and backend services using React, Next.js and TypeScript on AWS
• Make pragmatic technical decisions and communicate trade-offs clearly
• Help shape and deliver quarterly roadmap
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers and other specialists to define deliverable work
• Help evolve engineering standards, tools and practices
• Champion performance, accessibility, quality, security and observability of applications
• Maintain clear documentation for systems
• Participate openly in team discussions and foster inclusive contribution
• Own your development journey and continue learning beyond current scope

Key requirements

• Experience in JavaScript and/or TypeScript
• Experience using React in production
• Commercial web development experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience writing automated tests (unit, integration or functional)
• Understanding of web performance and accessibility
• Understanding of software quality and testing practices
• Experience working in an agile, cross-functional product team
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to take ownership while seeking support and feedback
• Curiosity and willingness to learn technologies beyond current scope
• Next.js experience is desirable
• AWS/cloud infrastructure experience is desirable

• Strong communication skills
• Collaborative mindset
• Ownership and accountability
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• React
• Next.js

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