Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
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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Axel Springer SE
As a leading European digital publisher, Axel Springer SE offers an impressive range of successful journalistic content and marketing portals.
Description
- Company Size
- 250+ Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Media, Publishing
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Senior Software Engineer - Payments & Entitlements
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
