Are you an experienced Fullstack Software Engineer looking to work in a forward thinking team on new & continuously developing products? Are you ready to sink your teeth into the world of AI and what it can offer? If so, then we want to hear from you!

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Mantis product development team. Mantis is a new technology business from Reach PLC, and this team is responsible for the design and development of our suite of data driven products for both media owners and advertisers.

Who we are

Mantis is a technology business with a suite of data driven products for both media owners and advertisers - utilising its tech platform and products to help both sides of the digital ecosystem. Mantis prides itself in being at the forefront of innovation and producing the best of the best in AI data driven tools and products for media owners and advertisers.

Built by Reach PLC and powered by IBM Watson, Mantis is the most powerful and precise approach to brand safety and contextual advertising available in the market today!

In 2024 we are continuing to grow and scale, and are looking to add ambitious and dynamic talent to our teams to help us achieve our goals.

Reach Plc is the UK’s largest commercial news publisher, home to the UK and Ireland’s most iconic digital platforms, magazines and newspapers, and is ranked 19th in the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers for 2023.

Role Location

This role is predominantly remote, but will require occasional travel into our Canary Wharf hub for team sessions. For this reason, the successful candidate will need to be able to travel into London when required.

Job Description

You will be working in the Mantis product development team enhancing and improving our current systems and building the next generation of Mantis services and products.

You will be involved from initial design, through POC to full build, delivery and service management, working with internal stakeholders and external customer teams.

You will work closely with the Tech Leads and Product Owners ensuring that everything we build meets our high standards, is delivered to agreed timescales and that we’re using the most appropriate technologies and development practices.

You will be designing solutions and writing application code (backend services, APIs and frontend components) and DevOps code to provision and manage the infrastructure it runs on. We use multiple cloud platforms to host our applications (AWS and IBM Cloud), using the cloud services and, increasingly, serverless infrastructure.

As an experienced Senior Engineer you will also advise and help other less experienced team members and will review and approve code changes.

You will be flexible and keen to improve and expand your skills, learning about new programming languages, frameworks and platforms where necessary. One day you might be building a frontend UI for a dashboard or client component, the next you might be creating a new scalable SAAS API, creating a backend application service or researching how to create a new machine learning model for text, image or video analysis.

Qualifications

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers to join our Mantis team, who can demonstrate a solid well-considered approach to software engineering and testing, and take pride in the work they do.

Ideally, you’ll have plenty of experience building scalable B2B and B2C products and services on cloud platforms and integrating these with customer’s systems. You will be happy to work on your own initiative, while also playing an important role in ensuring the cohesion and success of the wider team.

We are looking for people who care deeply about the code they write, are enthusiastic about clean code principles and development best practices. You should also be able to bridge the gap between the technical and business stakeholders, understanding the commercial drivers and KPIs our products must meet.

We are looking for candidates with experience with the following:

• AWS
• Google Cloud
• Javascript
• Node.js
• Relational databases (e.g PostgreSQL, mySql)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Reach plc believes diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

Interview Process

• 1st stage - 30 minute google meet video interview with Director of Commercial Development
• 2nd stage - 90 minute google meet video interview with Director of Commercial Development + 1 member of the wider team (TBC) - coding exercise during the interview