What's the role?
We're looking for a highly capable and experienced Developer to join our Fantasy Sports team at News Corp Australia. As we expand our product suite across multiple codes and formats, this role is critical in building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our large-scale, high-traffic fantasy sports platforms.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who thrives in complex systems, enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams, and takes pride in building robust, secure, and scalable end-to-end solutions across the full technology stack.. You'll play a key role in designing the architecture behind new fantasy experiences and supporting existing systems to perform under peak loads.
You will build and maintain the core technology behind our fantasy products, ensure performance, stability, and scalability as we expand, contribute to engineering best practices and technical decision-making, and help drive innovation while maintaining strong security and reliability.
What you will do:
* Develop secure, scalable applications across the back-end, APIs, and front-end.
* Integrate third-party data, authentication, payments, and platform services.
* Collaborate with engineers and product teams to deliver end-to-end features.
* Contribute to sprint planning, code reviews, and release processes.
* Monitor and maintain live systems, resolving issues proactively.
* Optimise application and database performance.
* Support architectural decisions and continuous improvement of engineering practices.
Who are you?
* Strong back-end development experience (PHP, MySQL/Aurora)
* Experience with RESTful APIs and server-side architecture
* Front-end skills with Angular and TypeScript
* Cloud experience (AWS: EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, ECS, S3 preferred)
* Familiarity with CI/CD, logging, and monitoring tools
* Strong understanding of security, scalability, and performance
* Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment
* Interest or experience in fantasy sports (advantage but not essential)
News Benefits
News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:
* Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
* Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
* Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
* Helping you grow - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognition
* Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
* Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
* Giving back - Make a difference to our communities.
* Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents' rooms
Who are we?
We are proud to be Australia's most impactful media group, we're even prouder of what we stand for: Together, we inform, advocate and inspire all Australians, for a better Australia.
With over 150 brands across news, sport and lifestyle, backed by a team of more than 5,000 dedicated people across the country, News Corp Australia is trusted by over 17 million Australians a month to provide the information and inspiration they seek across multiple digital, video, audio and print platforms.
Renowned for world-class journalism and marketing services nationally and internationally, we are passionate, creative and dynamic. We offer a fast-paced environment that encourages individuals to take control of their future and challenge themselves in ever-changing fields.
News Corp Australia is evolving in response to the expectations and challenges of the digital world in which we now live. We have an amazing opportunity to reinvent our industry and redefine the future of media in Australia. We are passionate about what we do and are proud of our heritage of world-class journalism and entrepreneurial spirit. Our environment is supportive and friendly, we encourage innovation, collaboration and creative thinking. If you thrive on being challenged and enjoy working in a fast-paced stimulating environment, come and join us on this incredible journey
What's next?
Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know.
If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please feel free to let us know. For more information regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NewsCorp Australia please visit under the DEI section.
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