Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

The Telegraph; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company seeks a Senior Software Engineer to enhance its platforms and services. This role involves building APIs, managing cloud infrastructure, and mentoring junior staff. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in Java, Python, cloud technologies, and a passion for high-quality software development. A commitment to inclusion and professional development is at the heart of our team culture.

Benefits

Dynamic working opportunities

Medical cover

Paid maternity and paternity leave

Life assurance

Season ticket loans

Access to training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with core Java and Spring Boot framework.
• Proficiency in Python with FastAPI.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms and infrastructure management.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable software solutions.
• Build and manage APIs and cloud infrastructure.
• Support and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Java

Python

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

APIs

Agile practices

Tools

Spring Boot

FastAPI

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

Elasticsearch

MySQL

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Posted:

17.06.2025

Expiry Date:

01.08.2025

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About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Platform) to join our high-impact Platforms team, where you’ll play a key role in designing and building the APIs, services, and infrastructure that power our products, internal tools, partner integrations and syndication pipelines. This is a platform engineering role with a strong software development emphasis — ideal for an experienced backend engineer with a solid understanding of modern cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform-as-a-service practices

You’ll work both independently and as part of a collaborative team to deliver end-to-end features and drive technical improvements across our modern Java (Spring Boot) and Python (FastAPI) stack both on Kubernetes and Serverless. Your responsibilities will include everything from working with SREs to define cloud infrastructure using Terraform, to building and testing backend services, and integrating with Apigee.

You'll take ownership of critical services and infrastructure components, ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability across the platform.

You’ll be expected to support and mentor junior engineers, helping to foster growth and maintain high engineering standards across the team. A strong understanding of Spring Boot, FastAPI, GCP, Jenkins, and scalable cloud systems is essential.

You’ll also work closely with our SREs to shape our internal Platform-as-a-Service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-traffic software following engineering standards.
• Build and maintain key Engineering blocks that other teams can rely upon (such as APIs and Cloud infrastructure).
• Ensure timely, high-quality deliveries.
• Develop and lead an effective model for assuring engineering quality standards, best practices, and technical decision-making across the platform engineering team.
• Ensure a globally robust and highly scalable approach to development to support our growing number of global users and services.
• Promote the company and department internally and externally, evangelise the strategy, exhibit the Technology behaviours & company values, follow the Technology principles, and encourage your staff and/or colleagues to do the same.
• Ensure code quality and adherence to best practices across CI/CD, security, and cloud standards.
• Contribute to the various company tech guilds/chapters with training/ presentations/blogs.
• Working with the SREs to maintain, improve and automate the cloud infrastructure.
• Java - Advanced knowledge and experience of core Java design and development alongside Spring Boot framework.
• Python - Advanced knowledge and experience of Python design and development alongside FastAPI framework.
• Terraform - Good knowledge/experience of Terraform to define and manage cloud resources.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Good working knowledge of GCP services and architecture for designing and deploying scalable cloud solutions.
• Good knowledge/experience of Elasticsearch and MySQL databases.
• Passionate about the craft of software development and the delivery of a quality digital product. Able to enthuse others, aligning them to adopt and embrace the same characteristics.
• Advanced knowledge of software design concepts, practices, and modern development methodologies, particularly agile, CI/CD and common architectures.
• Good understanding of Agile practices (TDD, Rigorous regular refactoring, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration).
• Strong experience of API Development is a must.
• Good communication skills (oral and written) to both a technical and non-technical audience
• Capable of starting/building things/processes from scratch and seeing them through
• Eager to gain hands-on experience delivering software in high-traffic, high-volume transactional digital or media environments.
• Willing to work in fast-paced development delivery – that balances frequency and very high-quality product.
• Background in designing and programming on a large scale / distributed systems is desirable.

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website