Senior / Staff Software Engineering (m/f/d) - Payments & Entitlements

Axel Springer AG; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Axel Springer AG seeks a highly experienced backend engineer to own and evolve the technical foundation of our Premium Services. You will design, build and operate scalable backend systems using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, and serverless architectures across payment and entitlement domains.

You will collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into pragmatic solutions, improve APIs, and drive cost efficiency while ensuring high reliability and production ownership.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in backend and cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on production experience with Node.js and TypeScript in high-traffic environments.
• Extensive AWS, serverless, Terraform, and CI/CD expertise.
• Understanding of caching, cookies, session handling, performance, resilience.
• Experience with subscription, payment, checkout, entitlement, or partner integrations.
• Strong analytical mindset and ability to drive measurable improvements.
• Pragmatic, hands-on approach with strong English skills and interest in Rust where valuable.

Aufgaben

• Own and evolve the technical foundation of our Premium Services domain across payment flows and integrations.
• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, and serverless architectures.
• Challenge existing systems to reduce complexity, cut costs, and increase reliability.
• Turn requirements into pragmatic technical solutions in collaboration with product and business.
• Design and improve APIs, event-driven patterns, and integration flows across multi-brand ecosystem.
• Build and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and production ownership.

Kenntnisse

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

Serverless

CI/CD

Observability

Incident resolution

Performance & resilience

English communication

Rust interest

Tools

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

Was du bei uns bewegst:

• 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

Was du mitbringst:

• 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
• solid understanding of modern web challenges such as caching, cookies, session handling, performance, resilience, and peak load scenarios
• experience operating and evolving subscription, payment, checkout, entitlement, acquisition, retention, or partner integration products
• 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