Staff Fullstack Engineer - On-Demand Streaming

About the role

A highly experienced Staff Fullstack Software Engineer is sought for the On-Demand team at Axel Springer's Berlin site. The engineer works in a self-organised agile team on the full lifecycle of on-demand audio and video content, from ingest and encoding to AI-based metadata enrichment and delivery, supporting content discovery for media brands such as BILD and WELT.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy and operate production services end to end in an agile, product-focused team
• Develop and evolve the microservice ecosystem with observable, resilient and horizontally scalable services
• Write lean, well-tested code (unit, integration, acceptance tests) and use BDD where it adds value
• Automate infrastructure and delivery via GitOps/CI/CD
• Keep production healthy by instrumenting metrics, logs and traces and turning incidents into learning

Required profile

• 8 years of professional software delivery experience
• Depth in one or two areas (backend, data, observability, cloud) with strong secondary skills across the stack
• Hands-on across the lifecycle, from requirements and design to implementation, testing and operations
• Significant experience in at least two of: Agile/Lean, BDD, DevOps/GitOps, multiple programming languages or modern UI development

Required skills

• Tech stack: TypeScript, Go, Python, Cucumber, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, FluxCD, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS, Azure
• Agile/DevOps practices, GitOps/CI/CD, BDD

What we offer

• Training, learning lunches, tech conferences and a workshop budget
• 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
• Free breakfast and lunch in the canteens
• 30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
• Health services including sports courses, preventive checkups and coaching
• Choice of office equipment and modern office spaces
• Permanent full- or part-time position in a modern Berlin office