Job Overview
Location
Indonesia
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, contributing to innovative web products that deliver insight and analysis to global leaders in business and government.
- • Design, build, and evolve scalable web applications across the stack; develop responsive, accessible, high-performance frontends using React and Next.js; build and maintain backend services and APIs; design robust system architectures; own performance across frontend and backend; drive best practices in testing, observability, and CI/CD; work with AWS cloud-native technologies; collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams; contribute to technical direction and mentor engineers.
- • The Economist Group exists to drive 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; empowers people to understand and tackle critical global challenges.
- • Opportunity to influence architecture, improve developer experience, evolve modern cloud-native systems, work autonomously in a creative and entrepreneurial environment, and build well-crafted, maintainable software while mentoring peers and raising the engineering bar.
🎯 Requirements
- • 6+ 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 of 1.2 million subscribers
- • 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 with legal right 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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