Senior Developer

Job Description :

Founded by pioneering journalists as the first social media newswire Storyful was created out of the need to break the news faster and utilize social content to add context to reporting. Acquired by News Corp in 2013 Storyful has evolved into a premium service for media business leaders and investors.

Our goal is to help our partners understand the attitudes behaviors and emotions shaping the world. Powered by a unique ability to gather and streamline data from all corners of an increasingly complex information environment our teams deliver clarity in a world of confusion. Our mission is to dig deeper into the nuance inherent in digital media to establish context verify the truth and help our partners make sense of the world.

We are seeking an experienced front-end developer to join a solid multidisciplinary team working on a variety of products used by Storyfuls News and Content team and external clients. By joining our team you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of our products by being involved in the process from start to finish. To this we expect our developers to be vocal about issues and to strive to be proactive rather than reactive. Storyful prioritises the growth of its staff and the tech team facilitate this through various initiatives like:

• Mentoring programme

• Hackathons

• Gold Cards

• Workshops

• Ladies in Tech group and many more.

Responsibilities will include:

• Quality maintainability performance and security of front-end code

• Working in a multidisciplinary development team

• Collaborate effectively with product owners other developers and non-technical stakeholders

• Promote continuous improvement in all aspects of the development lifecycle

• Contribute to and maintain Storyfuls Design System.

• Support and mentor other developers to encourage growth through code reviews pair programming and workshops.

Ideally youll have:

• 5 years of Javascript experience

• Record of building and shipping product

• Fluent with HTML5 SASS/SCSS and working with adaptive/responsive layouts

• Experience creating automated front-end tests

• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to use them

• Git or similar experience

Nice to have:

• Professional experience with EmberJs

• Other frontend framework experience such as AngularJs VueJs etc.

• Interest in containerisation and orchestration technologies; such as Docker Compose Kubernetes

• Familiarity with a GNU/Linux or UNIX environment

• Experience with an Agile methodology; e.g. Scrum Kanban XP

• Line management experience

Equal Opportunity Employer

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