Software Engineer – Ads & Commercial Development

Daily Mail; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension & life cover

Retail discounts

Employee Assistance Programme

Onsite gym

Canteen subsidy

Onsite health services

Job summary

Daily Mail is seeking a skilled backend engineer with strong JavaScript expertise to design and optimize services running in containerised environments. You will contribute to scalable architectures, implement efficient data structures, and participate in building robust CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes performance, code quality, and practical curiosity, with hybrid work and time in DMGT HQ in London. You will collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, well-tested software while embracing

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in js for backend services and build tooling.
• Solid hands-on experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes (K8s), and building robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent command of data structures, algorithms, system design, and clean code architectures.

Skills

js

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Code profiling

Performance tuning

Tools

Kubernetes (K8s)

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Location: Hybrid / x2 days per week in the office (DMGT HQ - High Street Kensington, London)

Position: Permanent

About the Role

Role-Related Knowledge:

• Ad-Tech Ecosystem (Highly Desirable): Conceptual knowledge of digital advertising infrastructure, including header bidding, ad servers, tracking pixels, and privacy-focused sandbox APIs.

About You

• Runtime Environments: Strong proficiency in js for backend services and build tooling.
• DevOps & Infrastructure: Solid hands-on experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes (K8s), and building robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Software Engineering Fundamentals: Excellent command of data structures, algorithms, system design, and clean code architectures.

Capabilities:

• Performance Optimisation: Ability to profile, debug, and optimize code to execute with minimal CPU and memory footprints in highly constrained environments.
• Tooling Leverage: Proactive adoption and strong leverage of LLM/AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development and automate repetitive workflows.

Cultural Add:

• Engineering Excellence: You take pride in writing clean, well-tested, and maintainable code, avoiding unnecessary dependencies.
• Pragmatic & Technical Curiosity: You enjoy peeling back the layers of software to understand how things work under the hood rather than just making them work.
• Collaboration & Openness: You actively participate in code reviews, share technical insights, and welcome constructive feedback.

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...

About Us

Daily Mail is an award-winning, multi-platform newsbrand reaching more than 33 million print and online readers each month. The world-famous Mail offers a unique blend of breaking news, agenda-setting exclusives, showbiz, Femail, health, sport and lifestyle stories across print, digital, video, audio and social channels.

Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats delivers highly engaging, trusted Daily Mail content to millions of loyal and new audiences. Founded in 1896, The Daily Mail is today the largest news publisher on TikTok, with more than 28 million total followers and more than 45 billion views in the past year. A trailblazing global phenomenon, Daily Mail is part of dmg media.

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.