🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany · 2w ago
Senior Backend Engineer (m/f/d) – Kotlin/Spring Boot/AWS
Axel Springer Tech GmbH
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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 transformed from a traditional print publisher into a digital-first company and we continue to to push the pace of product and engineering innovation.Our strategy is clear. We aim to become the leading AI enabled publisher in the democratic world. Artificial intelligence is not a side initiative for us. It is a core capability embedded across our products and workflows.We believe that strong journalism is a pillar of democratic societies. If this mission resonates with you, you will find a clear sense of purpose here. Your engineering work helps millions of people access reliable information every day.You’ll join a fast-moving, cross-functional mobile native team of Android, iOS, and backend developers — the creative force behind Germany’s leading news apps: BILD News, Sport BILD, WELT News, reaching millions of users every month. Are you open to trying new things? Are you confident, driven and clever? Then apply for a role now with Axel Springer TechWe 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.How you'll make an impacttake end-to-end ownership of our backend services to deliver scalable, reliable systems powering our mobile experiencearchitect and implement robust backend solutions with Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kotlin-based AWS Lambdas ensuring long-term performance and maintainabilityensure reliability and operability of your backend services by optimizing monitoring, logging, metrics, alarming, and overall service healthcollaborate with our MaPS platform team to deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes using modern, developer-friendly infrastructuredevelop and document clean, efficient APIs for seamless integration with other teams and products across our ecosystemact as a mentor and sparring partner for Android and cross-functional team members on backend topics to boost collaboration and knowledge sharingbroaden your skill set by exploring Android or iOS development and gaining insight into the full product verticalplay a key role in shaping technical vision, aligning architecture decisions, and continuously improving processes for greater product impactWhat you'll needat least five years of hands-on experience as a backend or software engineer, ideally in JVM-based backend systemsfluent in Kotlin and experienced with Spring Boot, having built and operated production-grade backend servicessolid track record working with AWS cloud technologies (including Lambda and container-based workloads), plus familiarity with cloud-native patterns like IAM, S3, and messaging servicesinterested in Kubernetes, understanding concepts like deployments, observability, and containerized workloadsstrong commitment to code quality, maintainable architectures, testing and long-term system ownershipenthusiasm for monitoring, transparency, and building systems that are easy to operateproven strength in mentoring colleagues, building cross-team relationships, and actively promoting knowledge sharing in diverse environmentsstrong communicator who translates complex technical topics for product managers, designers, and fellow engineersWhat we offeryour 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 facility or our modern in-house kindergarten30 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/ Questions and answers about the application processThe most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faqDiversity 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/rsdeContact person for this position (reference number REF2655E) is Daniel Müller-SecorskySourced from LinkedIn. Relocantly aggregates public job postings; apply on the original site.