Level
Senior
Location
Berlin
Working Model
Onsite
Job Field
Back End
Employment Type
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent employment

Job Summary

In this role, you will develop scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, optimize payment systems and entitlement logic, and improve APIs and integration flows in a highly available AWS environment.

Job Technologies

Your role in the team

Own and evolve the technical foundation of our Premium Services domain across acquisition, retention, offering, checkout, payment, entitlement, and partner integrations.
Design, build, and operate scalable backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, serverless architectures, and high-availability web systems.
Challenge existing systems and drive well-founded improvements that reduce complexity, optimize costs, increase reliability, or unlock new revenue opportunities.
Identify and improve technical and business processes across payment flows, entitlement logic, checkout experiences, partner integrations, and operations.
Work closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to turn premium, payment, and entitlement requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.
Design and improve APIs, service architectures, event-driven communication patterns, and integration flows across our multi-brand premium ecosystem.
Build and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and strong production ownership, including hands-on troubleshooting and mentoring.

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Our expectations of you

Qualifications

Solid understanding of modern web challenges such as caching, cookies, session handling, performance, resilience, and peak load scenarios.
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to question existing solutions, identify inefficiencies, and turn improvements into measurable impact.
Pragmatic, hands-on approach with strong English communication skills, confident AI tool usage, and interest in Rust where it adds value.

Experience

10+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
Strong hands-on production experience with Node.js and TypeScript, ideally in high-traffic, business-critical environments.
Deep experience with AWS, serverless architectures, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and incident resolution.
Experience operating and evolving subscription, payment, checkout, entitlement, acquisition, retention, or partner integration products.

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What we offer

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.

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