Senior Software Engineer - Web Fullstack

About the role

You will design and build the web experiences and supporting services that power video streaming, live events and podcast platforms. You will work across frontend and backend systems, shaping reliable, scalable solutions that deliver high quality media experiences to a global audience. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of content, product and platform engineering, contributing to the evolution of streaming capabilities, enhancing user experiences across web surfaces, and helping modernise the cloud infrastructure that underpins them.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve web applications that power video streaming, live events, podcasts and supporting product journeys

• Develop responsive, accessible, high performance frontends using React.js, Next.js and modern TypeScript

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs supporting media delivery, playback configuration and core product features

• Work with HLS and adaptive bitrate streaming, ensuring reliable playback across devices and network conditions

• Contribute to streaming workflows, including packaging, CDN integration and live event delivery

• Design and operate cloud native solutions on AWS, using services such as S3, Lambda, RDS and container based workloads

• Own performance across the stack, from Core Web Vitals to backend latency and caching

• Ensure strong observability, testing and CI and CD practices across services in production

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design and Editorial teams, and contribute to technical direction within the squad

About you

• 8+ years of experience in Web frontend and backend engineering

• Strong fullstack experience with JavaScript or TypeScript across frontend and backend

• Proven experience building production applications with React.js and Next.js

• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, ideally with Node.js or similar

• Solid understanding of modern web architecture, including SSR, static generation and CDN strategies

• Hands on experience with AWS and cloud native application design

• Good grasp of web performance, accessibility and scalable system design

• Experience with video streaming technologies, particularly HLS and adaptive bitrate streaming, is highly desirable

• Familiarity with CI and CD, containerisation and infrastructure as code

• Clear communication skills, sound judgement and a strong sense of ownership

About us

At The Economist Group, we champion progress, by helping people understand and tackle the critical challenges facing the world. We engineer innovative products that bring insight and analysis to global leaders in business and government. The Economist Group values diversity and is committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Benefits

• Flexible working with remote-first policy and minimum expectation of two days a month in office

• 10% a week learning time policy

• Access to Degreed learning and development platform with unlimited access to Udemy courses and other world-class content providers

• Opportunity to work on modern streaming and web technologies in a product focused squad

• Influence architectural decisions across web and cloud systems