Senior Web Fullstack Engineer - Remote, Impactful AI Apps

Economist Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension/401(k)

Private health insurance

Employee Assistance Program (counsel/7

Work From Anywhere up to 25 days/year

Generous annual and parental leave

Access to Economist content

Job summary

The Economist Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Web Fullstack, to design and build high-quality web products for a global audience. You will work across frontend and backend systems, shaping scalable solutions that power our digital platforms and data capabilities.

You will collaborate with Product, Design and cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions. Join a hybrid team driving innovation in web product delivery, performance, accessibility and reliability, while

Qualifications

• Experience in frontend and backend engineering.
• Proven experience building production applications with modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js).
• Experience designing and developing APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).
• Solid understanding of modern web architecture, including SSR, static generation, and caching strategies.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native system design.
• Strong grasp of performance, accessibility, and scalable system design.
• Experience with CI/CD, containerisation, and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve scalable web applications across the stack.
• Develop responsive, accessible, and high-performance frontends using React/Next.js.
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs supporting product features.
• Design robust system architectures balancing scalability and performance.
• Own performance across the stack from frontend to backend efficiency and caching.
• Drive best practices in testing, observability, and CI/CD in production.
• Work with AWS cloud-native services and manage deployments.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams end-to-end.
• Contribute to technical direction and mentor engineers.

Skills

Frontend and backend engineering

React

Next.js

REST/GraphQL APIs

AWS

CI/CD

Performance & accessibility

Containerisation

IaC

Tools

React

Next.js

REST

GraphQL

AWS

Job description

The Economist Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Web Fullstack, to design and build high-quality web products for a global audience. You will work across frontend and backend systems, shaping scalable solutions that power our digital platforms and data capabilities.

You will collaborate with Product, Design and cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions. Join a hybrid team driving innovation in web product delivery, performance, accessibility and reliability, while