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

Thrive in a small, open and collaborative team, where the best ideas can come from anyone?

Passionate about any area of news or sport, or creating the best product for people who are?

Confident and articulate about what you do 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 NewsNow.co.uk, news aggregator and top ten UK media publisher with 0.5bn ad impressions and 15M users monthly. As Founder and CEO (and CTO) I built the original NewsNow codebase aged 23 in 1997/98, and have been hands-on heading up product development ever since. Backed up by my remote co-director and partially remote principal engineer we have, between us, decades of experience both at NewsNow and of the industry.

The company’s 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.

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

Everyone who works here is very bright, friendly and approachable.We offer all the excitement of a start-up with all the stability and benefits of an established business (such as healthcare and working regular hours!)

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 (although please note right now we’re only considering applications from those within about one hour’s travel of our London offices).

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.

Struan Bartlett Founder and CEO NewsNow.co.uk