JavaScript Engineer

Daily Mail; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Daily Mail is seeking a hands-on frontend-focused software engineer to join our London team. You’ll design, build and ship new product features across frontend and backend, and move quickly from idea to production using modern AI tooling.

You’ll own delivery end-to-end, contribute to DevOps and CI/CD workflows, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to create scalable, high-availability systems. Three days per week in our Kensington office; remote work on other days considered.

Qualifications

• Strong frontend development with React, HTML and CSS.
• Experience deploying and maintaining high-availability systems.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
• Familiarity with agentic LLM tooling for rapid prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Build new product experiences across frontend and backend.
• Design for scale and reliability in production.
• Own delivery end to end from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Leverage agentic LLM tooling to prototype ideas quickly.
• Collaborate with the team to deliver effective software.

Skills

React

HTML

CSS

CI/CD

LLM tooling

Ownership

DevOps

Tools

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Contract: Permanent

Location: DMGT HQ, High Street Kensington, London

About Us

Daily Mail is one of the world’s largest and most influential news publishers, reaching over a billion people globally every month with its Seriously Popular™ content.

Renowned for its agenda-setting exclusives, breaking news, incisive commentary, and in-depth investigations, the Daily Mail delivers a unique editorial blend spanning showbiz, royals, lifestyle, health, sport, money and much more.

Its extensive reach, influence, and reader loyalty make it a premium destination for more than 400,000 digital subscribers across the UK, US, Australia, and beyond.

Daily Mail also maintains a powerful presence across social media, engaging more than 150 million followers and delivering more than 4 billion video views each month across platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat.

Seriously Popular™ isn’t just a slogan - it’s a relentless, 24/7 commitment to delighting, informing, and inspiring audiences worldwide.

About the Role

This is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on our products, take ownership of technical challenges, and move quickly from idea to production. We’re looking for someone who combines strong engineering fundamentals with a pragmatic, product-focused mindset and an enthusiasm for leveraging modern AI tooling to accelerate development and prototyping.

The role is based in London, with three days per week in our office in the High Street Kensington area.

Key Responsibilities

• Build new product experiences: Design, develop and ship new features and product verticals across the frontend and backend
• Design for scale and reliability: Build and maintain highly available, resilient systems that perform reliably in production
• Own delivery end to end: Contribute across the development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through to deployment, monitoring and ongoing optimisation
• Contribute to infrastructure and DevOps: Improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and deployment workflows to enable reliable, efficient delivery
• Move quickly and experiment: Leverage agentic LLM tooling to rapidly prototype ideas, explore solutions and accelerate product development
• Collaborate and innovate: Work closely with the wider team to turn ideas into effective product solutions, make sound technical decisions and continuously improve how we build software

About You

• Strong frontend development skills, with hands-on experience in React, HTML and CSS.
• Proven experience building, deploying and maintaining high-availability systems in production, with an understanding of reliability, scalability and performance.
• Comfortable working with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with agentic LLM tooling and the ability to use AI-powered development tools to accelerate prototyping and problem-solving.
• A pragmatic, hands-on engineering approach, with the ability to take ownership of projects and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Ability to work from our London office near High Street Kensington three days per week

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you've been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days' holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Pension plan and life cover
• Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics

Plus much more...

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.