Senior Full Stack Engineer

Location: Hybrid / Dublin, Ireland
job type: Fixed term / Full-time
Sector and subsector: IT | Full Stack
Salary: Competitive salary

The Company

The Irish Times Group is Ireland's leading independent quality news publishing organisation. The core activity of The Irish Times Group has evolved from six-day print publishing to a seven-day multi-platform news publisher with a market-leading position in the development of subscriptions and maximising revenues. We focus on producing quality content for our readers, providing media solutions for customers and we continue to grow and evolve in a fast-paced changing media landscape.

The Company is owned by The Irish Times Trust and is managed by The Irish Times DAC. In recent years, the Irish Times Group expanded its interests to include the Irish Examiner, The Echo, Regional newspapers, in addition to the Citywest print facility, Recruitireland.com, MyHome.ie, RIP.ie, The Gloss and Score Beo.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our Digital Products team.

This role is ideal for a highly capable engineer who combines strong frontend expertise with solid backend development experience and a passion for building high-quality software. While the role is primarily focused on developing and enhancing our web platforms using React and TypeScript, you will also contribute to backend services, APIs, integrations and platform capabilities that power our digital products.

Working closely with Product, Editorial, Commercial and Engineering teams, you will take ownership of features from concept through to production, helping to deliver exceptional digital experiences to hundreds of thousands of readers every day.

You will play a key role in promoting engineering excellence across the team through mentoring, code reviews, technical leadership and the adoption of best practices. Experience working within digital publishing, content management systems and high-traffic consumer-facing websites is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• Own features throughout their lifecycle, from technical design and implementation to deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement
• Build scalable, maintainable and reusable frontend architectures and components
• Collaborate with Product, Editorial, Commercial and Design teams to deliver high-quality customer experiences
• Integrate frontend applications with CMS platforms, content APIs and other business-critical systems
• Champion engineering excellence through clean code, testing, code reviews and continuous improvement practices
• Drive improvements in application performance, accessibility, reliability and security
• Ensure security best practices are embedded throughout the software development lifecycle
• Contribute to integration architecture and the successful delivery of platform and third-party integrations
• Mentor and support less experienced engineers through coaching, pairing and constructive feedback
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in operational support when required
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, development tooling and engineering best practices

Requirements & Experience for the role

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience building and maintaining scalable, customer-facing web applications
• Experience designing, consuming and integrating RESTful APIs and backend services
• Strong understanding of software design principles, application architecture and modern development practices
• Demonstrated commitment to code quality, testing and maintainability
• Experience managing application and integration security considerations, including secure development practices and vulnerability management
• Experience delivering and supporting complex system integrations
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and test-driven development practices
• Experience working with Git, CI/CD pipelines and Agile delivery methodologies
• Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proven ability to independently own and deliver complex features and initiatives
• Experience mentoring, coaching or supporting less experienced engineers

Highly Desirable

• Experience working within digital media, publishing or subscription-based businesses
• Experience working with enterprise CMS platforms or headless CMS solutions
• Experience developing backend services using Node.js and TypeScript
• Experience contributing to technical strategy and architectural decision-making
• Experience with cloud-native applications and services
• Experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with analytics, personalisation, audience engagement or subscription platforms
• Content & Publishing: CMS Platforms, Headless CMS Architectures, Content APIs, Publishing Workflows
• DevOps & Quality: Git, CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, Monitoring and Observability
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB or similar
• Cloud: AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP
• Testing: Jest, React Testing Library, Detox or similar frameworks

Why Now?

We're expanding our App Stream capacity to support growing audience demands and strategic digital initiatives. Your code will power the applications that connect hundreds of thousands of readers to quality journalism daily. This is an opportunity to join a team where your technical skills will have immediate impact on Ireland's leading digital news platforms.

The Irish Times Group operate a Hybrid working policy.

Our benefits include Health Insurance contribution, Pension Contribution, Sick Leave Cover, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Irish Times Premium Digital Subscription, Income Protection Policy, Corporate Gym Membership discounts, Free Digital GP and Life Assurance Policy.