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About the Role

Join a team that builds and evolves the technical foundation for our premium subscription business across multiple brands. Together, we create scalable solutions for acquisition, checkout, payments, entitlements, and partner integrations, combining engineering excellence with business impact. As a Senior/Staff Engineer, you will help shape architecture, drive technical improvements, and contribute to systems that enable sustainable growth and exceptional user experiences.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the technical foundation of our Premium Services domain across acquisition, retention, offering, checkout, payment, entitlement, and partner integrations.
Design, build, and operate scalable backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, serverless architectures, and high-availability web systems.
Challenge existing systems and drive well-founded improvements that reduce complexity, optimize costs, increase reliability, or unlock new revenue opportunities.
Identify and improve technical and business processes across payment flows, entitlement logic, checkout experiences, partner integrations, and operations.
Work closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to turn premium, payment, and entitlement requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.
Design and improve APIs, service architectures, event-driven communication patterns, and integration flows across our multi-brand premium ecosystem.
Build and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and strong production ownership, including hands-on troubleshooting and mentoring.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
Strong hands-on production experience with Node.js and TypeScript, ideally in high-traffic, business-critical environments.
Deep experience with AWS, serverless architectures, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and incident resolution.
Solid understanding of modern web challenges such as caching, cookies, session handling, performance, resilience, and peak load scenarios.
Experience operating and evolving subscription, payment, checkout, entitlement, acquisition, retention, or partner integration products.
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to question existing solutions, identify inefficiencies, and turn improvements into measurable impact.
Pragmatic, hands-on approach with strong English communication skills, confident AI tool usage, and interest in Rust where it adds value.

Skills

Node.js
TypeScript
AWS
Serverless architectures
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
CI/CD
Observability
Incident resolution
Rust

Location

Berlin

Work Type

80% office presence and 20% mobile working
Permanent
Full-time
Part-time

Experience Level

Senior/Staff Engineer
10+ years of software engineering experience

Benefits

Trainings and learning lunches
Tech conferences
Budget for workshops
Discounted public transport ticket
JobRad leasing
Bicycle garage (incl. regular bicycle service)
Childcare facilities
Two modern in-house kindergartens
30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
Free lunch in our canteens
Guidance on relocation and visa processes

About the Company

We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies.
Our five essentials are the values that unite us and our compass in our commitment to freedom.

Equal Opportunity

Diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.
You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/rsde