Job Overview
Location
Gurugram
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 14, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • Senior Software Engineer - Web Fullstack role at The Economist Group Limited, focused on designing and building high-quality web products and services that power global insights delivery to 1.2 million subscribers.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include designing, building, and evolving scalable web applications across the stack; developing responsive, accessible, high-performance frontends using React and Next.js; building and maintaining backend services and APIs; owning performance across frontend and backend; driving best practices in testing, observability, and CI/CD; collaborating with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams; and contributing to technical direction while mentoring engineers.
- • The Economist Group is a global organisation driving progress through innovation, independence, and rigour, delivering analysis and insights to subscribers and businesses in 170 countries via The Economist, Economist Enterprise, and Economist Education.
- • In this role, you will influence architecture, improve developer experience, help evolve modern cloud-native systems, and gain autonomy in a creative, entrepreneurial environment while building well-crafted, maintainable software that serves a global audience.
🎯 Requirements
- • 7+ years of experience in frontend and backend engineering
- • Strong fullstack experience with JavaScript or TypeScript
- • Proven experience building production applications with modern frontend frameworks (e.g. 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
- • Clear communication skills, sound judgement, and a strong sense of ownership
🏖️ Benefits
- • Build products used by a global audience
- • Work with modern web and cloud technologies in a product-focused environment
- • Influence architectural decisions and engineering practices
- • Enjoy a flexible, remote-first culture with autonomy and trust
- • Be part of a team that values quality, curiosity, and continuous improvement
- • Highly competitive pension or 401(k) plan, private health insurance, and 24/7 access to counselling and wellbeing resources via Employee Assistance Program
- • Work From Anywhere program allowing work from any location for up to 25 days per year
- • Generous annual and parental leave, plus dedicated days off for volunteering and moving home
- • Free access to all The Economist content, including online subscription, apps, podcasts, and more
Skills & Technologies
About The Economist Group Limited
The Economist Group is a global leader in international affairs, business, and finance. Its flagship publication, The Economist magazine, provides in-depth analysis and opinion on global events. Beyond the magazine, the Group operates a diverse portfolio of businesses. These include Economist Impact, which offers data-driven insights and advisory services for businesses and governments; Economist Intelligence, providing economic forecasting and political risk analysis; and Economist Education, offering executive education programs. The company aims to help individuals and organizations understand the forces shaping the world and make better decisions.
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