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About the Role
Join a fast-moving, cross-functional mobile native team of Android, iOS, and backend developers, the creative force behind Germany’s leading news apps. Your engineering work helps millions of people access reliable information every day, empowering free decisions through trusted information.
Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of backend services to deliver scalable, reliable systems powering the mobile experience.
- Architect and implement robust backend solutions with Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kotlin-based AWS Lambdas.
- Ensure reliability and operability of backend services by optimizing monitoring, logging, metrics, alarming, and overall service health.
- Collaborate with the MaPS platform team to deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes.
- Develop and document clean, efficient APIs for seamless integration with other teams and products.
- Act as a mentor and sparring partner for Android and cross-functional team members on backend topics.
- Broaden skill set by exploring Android or iOS development and gaining insight into the full product vertical.
- Play a key role in shaping technical vision, aligning architecture decisions, and continuously improving processes.
Requirements
- At least five years of hands-on experience as a backend or software engineer, ideally in JVM-based backend systems.
- Fluent in Kotlin and experienced with Spring Boot, having built and operated production-grade backend services.
- Solid track record working with AWS cloud technologies (including Lambda and container-based workloads), plus familiarity with cloud-native patterns like IAM, S3, and messaging services.
- Interested in Kubernetes, understanding concepts like deployments, observability, and containerized workloads.
- Strong commitment to code quality, maintainable architectures, testing, and long-term system ownership.
- Enthusiasm for monitoring, transparency, and building systems that are easy to operate.
- Proven strength in mentoring colleagues, building cross-team relationships, and actively promoting knowledge sharing.
- Strong communicator who translates complex technical topics for product managers, designers, and fellow engineers.
Skills
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- AWS
- AWS Lambda
- Kubernetes
- API Development
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Metrics
- Alarming
- Cloud-Native Patterns
- IAM
- S3
- Messaging Services
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- At least five years of hands-on experience
Benefits
- Trainings and learning lunches
- Tech conferences
- Budget for workshops
- Discounted public transport ticket
- JobRad leasing
- Bicycle garage with regular bicycle service
- Childcare facility
- Modern in-house kindergarten
- 30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
- Free lunch in canteens
- Guidance on relocation and visa processes
About the Company
- Axel Springer is an international media and technology company with a portfolio that includes leading news brands such as BILD and WELT in Germany, ONET in Poland, and globally recognized brands like POLITICO and Business Insider.
- Our mission is to empower free decisions by providing trusted information.
- We have completed the transformation from a traditional print publisher into a digital-first company and continue to push the pace of product and engineering innovation.
- Our strategy is clear: to become the leading AI enabled publisher in the democratic world.
- Artificial intelligence is a core capability embedded across our products and workflows.
- We believe that strong journalism is a pillar of democratic societies.
- 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 guide us 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