Axel Springer is Europe's leading digital publisher and a global media and technology company headquartered in Berlin. With renowned brands such as BILD, POLITICO Germany, WELT, and BUSINESS INSIDER Germany, they reach millions of users worldwide. The company combines the reach of an established industry leader with the agility of a startup, constantly driving innovation to transform journalism for the digital age.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, high-performance systems and services for personalized content delivery
- Implement complex architectures across multiple backend and frontend components, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and maintainability
- Collaborate with different teams to integrate machine learning models into production systems
- Lead end-to-end feature development, from concept and design through implementation, testing, and deployment
- Contribute to architecture decisions that follow best practices in system design, code quality, and DevOps automation
Requirements
- Extensive experience in building and maintaining complex, distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) as your primary backend language
- Solid Python skills for data-processing or AI integration tasks
- Deep knowledge of AWS services (Lambda, ECS / Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, etc.) and modern cloud-native architecture
- Solid experience with TypeScript and React for developing intuitive user interfaces
- Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, and API design
- Proven ability to design for scalability, observability, and fault tolerance
- Experience working with CI / CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and test automation
- Proactive mindset - thinking in systems, caring about user impact, and taking ownership of your work
- Excellent communication skills in English (German is a plus)
Benefits
- Opportunities for personal growth through trainings, learning lunches, tech conferences, and a budget for workshops
- Flexible working hours to support a healthy work-life balance
- Free food offerings, including breakfast and lunch
- 30 days vacation plus 10 days working from abroad
- Free choice of top-notch office equipment, up-to-date hardware, software, and modern office spaces
- Guidance on administrative aspects of relocation and visa processes
- Collaborative work environment with 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
- Permanent full-time or part-time position in a modern office in the heart of Berlin