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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 Authentication & Profile domain across account creation, login, registration, single sign-on, profile data, and secure access to user information.
Design, build, and operate scalable full-stack services that enable millions of users to access our brand products and premium content reliably across all channels.
Shape the future of our identity platform by improving security, user experience, performance, and maintainability across authentication and profile-related services.
Challenge existing systems and drive well-founded improvements that reduce complexity, increase reliability, strengthen data security, or unlock better product and business outcomes.
Work closely with product, engineering, security, data, and business stakeholders to turn authentication, profile, and user data requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.
Design and improve APIs, service architectures, frontend integrations, and data access patterns used by internal services across our multi-brand ecosystem.
Build and operate cloud-native infrastructure on AWS with serverless architectures, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure automation, strong production ownership, and hands-on mentoring.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in full-stack development, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
Strong hands-on production experience with Java as a primary language, ideally combined with TypeScript and modern web technologies.
Deep experience building and operating scalable applications on AWS, particularly with AWS Lambda, serverless architectures, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure automation.
Solid understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, distributed systems, security, resilience, and high-availability web applications.
Experience with authentication, identity, single sign-on, user profiles, secure data access, privacy, or security-sensitive product domains.
Strong ability to work across the stack, including backend services, frontend integrations, and the user-facing flows that connect them.
Pragmatic, analytical mindset with strong English and German communication skills, confident AI tool usage, and curiosity for technologies such as Go or Rust where they add value.

Skills

Full-stack development
Distributed systems
Cloud-native architectures
Java
TypeScript
Modern web technologies
AWS
AWS Lambda
Serverless architectures
CI/CD
Observability
Infrastructure automation
APIs
Go
Rust

Location

Berlin

Work Type

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

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 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