About this role
own and evolve the technical foundation of our Premium Services domain across acquisition, retention, offering, checkout, payment, entitlement, and partner integrationsdesign, build, and operate scalable backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, serverless architectures, and high-availability web systemschallenge existing systems and drive well-founded improvements that reduce complexity, optimize costs, increase reliability, or unlock new revenue opportunitiesidentify and improve technical and business processes across payment flows, entitlement logic, checkout experiences, partner integrations, and operationswork closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to turn premium, payment, and entitlement requirements into pragmatic technical solutionsdesign and improve APIs, service architectures, event-driven communication patterns, and integration flows across our multi-brand premium ecosystembuild and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and strong production ownership, including hands-on troubleshooting and mentoring 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecturesstrong hands-on production experience with Node.js and TypeScript, ideally in high-traffic, business-critical environmentsdeep experience with AWS, serverless architectures, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and incident resolutionsolid understanding of modern web challenges such as caching, cookies, session handling, performance, resilience, and peak load scenariosexperience operating and evolving subscription, payment, checkout, entitlement, acquisition, retention, or partner integration productsstrong analytical mindset with the ability to question existing solutions, identify inefficiencies, and turn improvements into measurable impactpragmatic, hands-on approach with strong English communication skills, confident AI tool usage, and interest in Rust where it adds value your personal growth is important to us: we offer trainings and learning lunches, tech conferences, a budget for workshops and much more to expand your knowledge and your skillsEmployee offers that suit you and your life situation: Whether it's a discounted public transport ticket or JobRad leasing, a bicycle garage (incl. regular bicycle service), childcare facilities or two modern in-house kindergartens30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroadour free food offer: we offer free lunch in our canteenswe offer guidance on the administrative side of relocation and visa processes through our relocation agencycollaboration thrives on direct exchange - we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile workingfrom now a permanent full- or part-time position in a modern office in the heart of Berlin: http://www.axelspringer-neubau.de/ The most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faq
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