About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Fullstack Software Engineer to join our On-Demand Team. You will be a key player in a self-organized agile team, working on the full lifecycle of on-demand audio and video content, from ingest and encoding to AI-based metadata enrichment and delivery. Your work will directly impact millions of users by improving content discovery and access for our leading media brands.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production services end-to-end in an agile, product-focused team.
- Develop and evolve our microservice ecosystem, creating new services that are observable, resilient, and horizontally scalable.
- Raise the quality bar by writing lean, well-tested code (unit, integration, acceptance) and using BDD where it adds value.
- Automate everything by codifying infrastructure and delivery (GitOps/CI/CD) to boost speed with the right guardrails.
- Keep production healthy by instrumenting metrics, logs, and traces, and turning incidents into learning.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience in delivering software.
- Depth in one or two areas: backend, data, observability, cloud, and strong secondary skills across others, connecting dots across the stack.
- Hands-on experience across the lifecycle - from requirements and design to implementation, testing, and operations.
- Significant experience in at least two of the following: Agile/Lean, BDD, DevOps/GitOps, multiple programming languages, or modern UI development.
- Ability to learn fast and stay pragmatic, choosing the right tool for the job.
Skills
- Typescript
- Golang
- Python
- Cucumber
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- FluxCD
- Terraform
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- AWS
- Azure
- Agile/Lean
- BDD
- DevOps/GitOps
- Modern UI development
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Expert
Experience Level
- Staff
- 10+ years
Benefits
- Trainings and learning lunches
- Tech conferences
- Budget for workshops
- Free lunch in canteens
- 30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
- Wide range of health services (Wellhub, preventive medical checkups, professional coaching)
- Free choice of top-notch office equipment (also for remote work space and private usage)
- Up-to-date hardware, software, and modern office spaces
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 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
