About the role We are looking for a fully-remote Senior Software Engineer/Dev Team Lead to take overall day-to-day operational responsibility for uptime of the NewsNow platform and for leading our small dev team in efficiently shipping product improvements that deliver business impact both commercially and in respect of our mission to provide the public with world-leading news aggregation services. You and your skills The right candidate will: Be highly numerate and analytical, backed by a mathematics, computer science, stats or physics degree (or equivalent experience) Have excellent high-level language coding skills in any of e.g. Perl, Python, C/C++, Go, Rust, NodeJS, Java and a language-agnostic attitude Have experience of Perl, Python 3 and NodeJS and a willingness to work with these or learn them fast Have strong scripting skills (Bash, Perl, Python) Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to engage authoritatively in technical discussions around the specifications of projects Be confident with Linux server/system administration Have experience with containerised workloads using Docker Be expert-level at Root Cause Analysis Bring a strong appetite for learning new skills and be open to new technologies, but not a slave to them Have two years experience of training and running teams to deliver on time and on budget Be willing to drive the team from the front and be accountable for its performance The right candidate will also have understanding and experience of at least 3 of the following: Natural language processing Designing and implementing distributed or large-scale systems MySQL/SQL database design, query optimisation Using or evaluating ML models in Keras, Tensorflow or Torch Basic web development skills e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue/React Apache web server software and related modules Cloud platforms and concepts (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) Setup, testing and administration of CI/CD pipelines Networking and firewalling Responsibilities Responsibilities for this role will include the following: Leading, driving and motivating the development team Allocating work to individual developers, keeping a focus on business priorities and how they further the company’s mission Supporting team members in their work and learning Driving and reporting on team performance and execution Motivating the team to keep momentum high and the focus on deliver Design, build and implementation Developing and maintaining a detailed understanding of, and striving to become an authority on, all NewsNow's systems and languages Scoping, designing and developing across frontend and especially backend subsystems Upholding standards (e.g. in maintainability, security, scalability, efficiency) Squashing all the bugs other developers cannot Contributing towards monitoring, maintenance and administration of our production stack Dell R630/R640 servers running Debian Linux and containerised workloads (Docker Swarm) Replicated databases (MySQL) and volume management using LVM and ZFS Firewall (iptables/nftables) and dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF) Participation in on-call rotation, resolving production outages On-the-job training will be provided on the specific application of these technologies in our stack. About NewsNow NewsNow is a rare UK-based .com success story: a news organisation using technology to support and promote credible, independent and public interest journalism, via the extremely successful news aggregation and discovery platform NewsNow.co.uk. Founded in 1997 to democratise and disrupt the market for news, NewsNow has since become a global top 50 news website with millions of loyal users who discover news from thousands of publishers. Our Culture Open: we share and collaborate within and across departments Rigorous: We like to be clear about what we're doing, and why. Experimentation and peer-review are in our DNA One team, one vision: no office politics An appreciative environment: expect to hear 'thanks' a lot Room to grow: development of skills and responsibilities is encouraged and rewarded Virtual: we are today a fully-remote company with occasional in-person get-togethers Family-friendly and flexible: we offer flexible working, and understand sometimes personal needs come first