Passionate about any area of news, sport, or fairness in news reporting?

Relish crafting elegant solutions to hard technical and business problems, using whatever is the best tool for the job?

Thrive in an open, collaborative environment, where the best ideas can come from anyone?

Confident and articulate about what you know, and humble and articulate about what you don’t?

Experienced in working with remote team members, and/or comfortable with your own company?

Live within about 1 hour’s travel of London St Pancras/London Euston?

Fancy the idea of competing with Google, by being clever rather than colossal?

Then why not consider joining https://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/?utm_campaign=domains&utm_content=NewsNow.co.uk&utm_medium=web&utm_source=newsnow, news aggregator and top ten UK media publisher with 15M users monthly. Established 1998 and profitable ever since, our ethos (and business models) have stood the test of time. We believe in:

• Fairness and accuracy in news reporting.

• Providing a platform for small publishers.

• Delivering the best news from all the angles.

• Hands-on decision makers who understand the work of the people they manage.

• Learning what we need, when we need to, in order to do the best possible job.

Ours is a developer-led company: our South coast-based Founder and CEO heads up our development team, and is backed up by his remote Co-director and Principal Engineer. Everyone who works here is very bright, friendly and approachable.

As a software developer, you’d be working on projects including our unique in-house article classification engine, generating live digests of our most compelling content, or mining live streams of data about events from all over the world. As a web developer, you’d work on rendering this content in real time for maximum impact on multiple devices, and projects like letting users share and rate it.

We run Debian Linux on our co-located raw metal and on AWS EC2/VPC, with MySQL, Apache, and in-house code written in a variety of languages. We do our web development in HTML5, CSS3, advanced JavaScript, jQuery. We use OO patterns in coding.

Remote working options available.

If this might be up your street, whether today or in the future, please get in touch and tell us about yourself. We’re hiring continuously so there’s never a bad time to say hello.

If you just want to learn learn more about us and what we do, please visit our website.