Senior Fullstack Engineer

Overview

Are you a battle-proven senior fullstack engineer with a passion for solving complex problems? We're on a critical mission to not just modernize but to reimagine and elevate our core News-domain.

Our environment

• Working with skilled and similar-minded professionals in a team that values diversity and inclusivity
• We aim to create a flexible and agile work environment that promotes the well-being and work-life balance of our employees
• We believe that team events during working hours play a vital role in building an exceptionally effective team, and we encourage them
• We are enthusiastic about technology and committed to using it to improve the world
• We follow the "You build it, you run it" approach and take pride in it

Our team is one of the oldest teams in our product organization: we are News!

You'll start by tackling the legacy foundation, clearing the path to lay a new, state-of-the-art groundwork. From there, you'll be a key player in igniting a new era of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what's possible and shaping the future of our central product.

If you’re a go-getter who loves to transform challenges into triumphs, this is the type of project you'll be proud to look back on. And you will do so with a wonderful team.

• Responsible for improving and developing our web-based clients and RESTful web services
• Work in a cross-functional Scrum team and produce high-quality and tested code
• Give and receive valuable feedback in our code review process and continuously learn and share knowledge with your peers
• Being open to feedback and taking ownership of your work are essential
• You work iteratively, frequently pushing code, ensuring a good CI/CD pipeline, and automating where possible

General

• Expert knowledge of REST APIs and their design
• Experience in writing unit-tests and end-to-end (e2e) tests
• Initial experience in architectural design, writing and collaborating on ADRs with Staff Engineers, and shaping long-term technical direction, would be beneficial
• Ideally familiar with Docker, Git Hub Actions, Kubernetes, Prometheus or Grafana

Frontend

• Proficient experience in JavaScript and Type Script
• Mastery of React, and comfortable working without a framework when needed
• Awareness of Accessibility (a11y) best practices

Backend

• You are fluent in Kotlin (or Java) and comfortable driving backend design and implementation with it
• Comfortable working with databases (Mongo
  
  DB is a plus)
• Experience with Golang is a plus

Mindset & Collaboration

• You value clean code, testing, and continuous learning
• Prior experience in an agile/Scrum environment
• Passion for the things you build and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex, ambiguous issues with limited guidance
• Knowledge of product discovery, especially evaluating feasibility collaboratively within a team, is a major plus
• You enjoy working with user stories and shaping solutions that actually solve user problems, not just coding tasks
• Very good English communication skills
• Openness towards AI technologies and curiosity about how they can improve our product and workflows

• Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
• Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560
• Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000, and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year)
• Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
• Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance €35, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
• Support - we’re offering a company pension scheme
• Health - The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks and ergonomic workplaces
• Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
• Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid