Full-Stack Web Engineer (Hybrid) - Local News Tech

Firefly New Media LTD; North East; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

28 days holiday incl. bank holidays

Pension

Laptop provided

AI tooling access

Training budget

Conference & courses

Job summary

Firefly New Media LTD in Consett is looking for a full stack developer to own production code, shipping weekly and delivering results across our sites and platform. You will work across the stack with TypeScript, React, Node and SQL, building for local neighbours and small businesses.

We offer a hybrid setup with 37.5 hours, a starting salary from £27,300, 28 days holiday, a pension, a laptop and access to AI tooling, plus a training budget for conferences and courses.

Qualifications

• Two or more years building and shipping web applications.
• Comfortable across the stack: TypeScript, React, Node, SQL.
• Writes clearly, tests own work, and asks before assuming.
• Interested in local news, small businesses and the North East.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain public magazine sites and fireflynewmedia.com using React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind.
• Develop the magazine.ad editorial platform and editors' admin tools.
• Work with PostgreSQL (Drizzle) on Railway with backups and monitoring.
• Create automation and AI tooling using Claude API/Code in daily work and product.
• Deliver client websites from brief to launch and ongoing care for the first year of ownership.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node

SQL

Testing

Tools

PostgreSQL

Drizzle

Railway

Claude API

Claude Code

Job description

Firefly New Media LTD in Consett is looking for a full stack developer to own production code, shipping weekly and delivering results across our sites and platform. You will work across the stack with TypeScript, React, Node and SQL, building for local neighbours and small businesses.

We offer a hybrid setup with 37.5 hours, a starting salary from £27,300, 28 days holiday, a pension, a laptop and access to AI tooling, plus a training budget for conferences and courses.