Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A Senior Software Engineer role for a hands-on developer who can own features from planning through deployment and production monitoring. You will work across web, mobile, and backend services, improve real-world systems for performance and reliability, collaborate closely with product and design, and use AI coding tools as part of the standard development workflow.
Highlights
Senior engineering role with end-to-end ownership across web, mobile, and backend services, direct collaboration with product and design, and a small, pragmatic, autonomous team environment.
Description
What is CoinDesk Media Engineering?
We are responsible for the architecture, development, and optimisation of coindesk.com, the CoinDesk app, and the services behind both, ensuring millions of readers worldwide get seamless access to news, data, and multimedia content.
We're looking for a senior engineer with strong, hands-on expertise across modern web and mobile, who can take real ownership of functionality and drive it forward.
If you enjoy working in a small, flat, dedicated team, are pragmatic, and like the challenge of taking a real system and making it better, faster, more fun to build on, you'll fit right in.
What you'll do
Ship features end-to-end across the website, the app and the services layer.Own your work from scoping with product/design through shipping, monitoring, and ensuring production is safe, secure, and robust.Work directly with product managers, designers, we're a small, direct team.Use AI coding tools as a default part of how you build, not a novelty.
Tech stack includes:
Next.js, React 19, TypeScriptReact Native, ExpoSanity CMS, StripeAuth0, HubSpot, Amplitude, LaunchDarklyNode.js, Elysia, Bun, RedisGoogle Ad Manager, Playwright, Maestro
AI
You'll get access to Claude Code, Open Code, Pi and a whole suite of Anthropic and Open Source modelsWe use AI by default in our day-to-day.
Not just for coding, but to optimise, automate, improve constantly our setup.We look to build and expand the AI tools available for designers, product managers, editors to empower them and make their work simpler.
What you need to have:
5+ years shipping production software, most of it in React/Next.js, Node.js/TypeScript, RESTful APIs, CMSs.Strong experience with Next.js for server side rendering, caching, web performance optimisationsReal experience with automated testing, it comes by default, not an afterthought.Feature flags are one of your best friends.Real experience taking work directly from product, design, and non-engineering stakeholders.
You can take a feature from rough draft, alongside product, designers to production.Experience with CI/CD pipelines, security best practicesExperience with large-scale content platforms.
Nice to have:
React Native / Expo experience.Auth0, HubSpot, and headless CMSs.Paywalls, subscriptions, ad management systems, analytics toolsExposure to GCP (Cloud Functions, Terraform)SEO best practices, Core Web Vitals.
Company Benefits
Competitive salaryDiscretionary cash bonus and incentive planPrivate health insuranceDental insurancePension and 25 days annual leave.NB: Must be committed to working in the office four days per week.
Interview Process
1) HR Interview
2) Technical Discussion 3) Pair programming
4) Design and architecture
5) LLM
6) Meet the team
