IT & Software

Senior Android Engineer

Economist Group

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

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Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer, Web Fullstack, you will design and build scalable web products that serve a global audience. You’ll work across frontend and backend, shaping reliable architectures and concurrent delivery across teams. You’ll influence technical direction, mentor peers, and help elevate performance, accessibility, and maintainability. This role sits at the intersection of product, platform, and engineering, enabling trusted insights to reach diverse users.

Pay / Benefits
  • pension or 401(k)
  • private health insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Work From Anywhere program
  • generous annual and parental leave
  • volunteering days
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and evolve scalable web applications across the stack
  • Develop responsive, accessible, and high-performance frontends using React and Next.js
  • Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support product features and integrations
  • Design robust system architectures, balancing scalability, performance, and maintainability
  • Own performance across the stack, from frontend experience to backend efficiency and caching strategies
  • Drive best practices in testing, observability, and CI/CD across services in production
  • Work with cloud-native technologies on AWS, leveraging services such as compute, storage, and managed databases
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams to shape solutions end-to-end
  • Contribute to technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise the engineering bar within the team
Key requirements
  • Experience in frontend and backend engineering
  • Strong fullstack experience with JavaScript or TypeScript
  • 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
  • collaboration in cross-functional teams
  • mentoring engineers
  • strong communication
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React

Reference: WJ-747_31233791 · Posted 06 Nov 2026, 02:27 AM

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