Front-End Developer – Newsroom (12 month FTC/Secondment) Full Time

Sky
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Sky News is looking for a Newsroom Front-end Developer to join our newsroom team, where technology and storytelling meet to create powerful digital experiences across our editorial and broadcast platforms.

We’re after someone with a passion for creating visually compelling, technically robust, and high-impact user experiences – someone who thrives at the intersection of news, design, and development. A creative coder, with a solid news instinct and an eye for detail.

What you’ll do

• Design and develop innovative, high-quality front-end web applications for news consumers, using modern JavaScript frameworks (React.js, Redux, D3).
• Build engaging visual storytelling experiences and editorial tools for use across Sky News platforms.
• Prototype rapidly using lean methodology and test-driven development (TDD).
• Own and maintain scalable, efficient, and resilient codebases with a focus on performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with journalists, designers, and backend developers to deliver seamless, impactful digital products.
• Help guide the team’s technical direction and choose the best tools for each project, working across the full software development lifecycle, from idea, design to deployment.

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience with JavaScript, especially React/Redux, D3, and the modern JS ecosystem (ES6/ES7).
• Experience with Node.js and the back-end ecosystem, including npm and webpack.
• Experience designing and deploying serverless architectures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) / Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with TDD and testing frameworks such as Mocha and Cypress, along with CI/CD tools like CircleCI.
• Proficiency with Git, JIRA, and modern development workflows.
• Solid understanding of web performance, security, and optimization techniques.
• Knowledge of Python or R for data manipulation or backend scripting and familiarity with MySQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment.
• A curiosity regarding current affairs

Team overview

Sky News

You’ll work on projects across the newsroom, with a focus on premium story-telling, but you’ll be based with the Data and Forensics team – a multi-skilled unit dedicated to providing transparent journalism from Sky News.

We gather, analyse and visualise data to tell data-driven stories. We combine traditional reporting skills with advanced analysis of satellite images, social media and other open-source information. Through multimedia storytelling we aim to better explain the world while also showing how our journalism is done.

The rewards

There’s one thing people can’t stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Inclusion & how you’ll work

We are a Disability Confident Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.

We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You’ll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.

Please note that due to the nature of this role, it incorporates a 45 hour working week.

Your office space

Osterley

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

We’d love to hear from you

Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It’s a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next.

But better doesn’t stop at what we do, it’s how we do it, too. We embrace each other’s differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet.

If you believe in better, we’ll back you all the way.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.