Fullstack Engineer - Live Streaming (m/f/d)

Axel Springer is an international media and technology company with a portfolio that includes leading news brands such as BILD and WELT in Germany, ONET in Poland, and globally recognized brands like POLITICO and Business Insider. Our mission is to empower free decisions by providing trusted information.

We're looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join the OTT Live team at Axel Springer National Media & Tech. Our team is responsible for building and maintaining the core services that power live streaming for major media brands like BILD and WELT. We focus on delivering robust, high-availability solutions for live events, FAST channels, and monetization through server-side ad insertion. If you're a hands-on engineer with significant professional experience and a strong background in DevOps, agile methodologies, and multiple programming languages, we'd love to hear from you.

We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our five essentials are the values that unite us and guide us in our commitment to freedom.



Tech Stack: Golang, Dart, Python, Java, Flutter, Dart, Cucumber, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, FluxCD, Terraform, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana

• Design, build, test, deploy and operate production services end to end in an agile, self-managed, product-focused team
• Within our microservice ecosystem, you develop and evolve new services that are observable, resilient and horizontally scalable
• You raise the quality bar by writing lean, well-tested code (unit, integration, acceptance) and apply BDD where it adds value
• Through automation, you codify infrastructure and delivery using GitOps and CI / CD to increase speed with the right guardrails
• You keep production healthy by instrumenting metrics, logs and traces while turning incidents into learning opportunities

• Significant professional experience in delivering software to production
• In one or two areas such as backend, data, observability or cloud, you bring deep expertise and connect dots across the stack
• Hands-on experience across the full lifecycle, from requirements and design to implementation, testing and operations
• Experience in at least two of the following: Agile / Lean, BDD, DevOps / GitOps, multiple programming languages or Flutter / UI development
• A pragmatic mindset, enabling you to learn fast and choose the right tool for the job

•  your personal growth is important to us: we offer trainings and learning lunches, tech conferences, a budget for workshops and much more to expand your knowledge and your skills
• collaboration thrives on direct exchange – we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
• our free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, we also offer a free lunch in our canteens
• 30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
• a wide range of health services for all aspects of life: from sports courses (Wellhub) and preventive medical checkups to professional coaching with renowned partners (PME Familienservice)
• free choice of top-notch office equipment (also for your remote work space and possibility of private usage), up-to-date hardware, software and modern office spaces
• from now a permanent full- or part-time position in a modern office in the heart of Berlin: http://www.axelspringer-neubau.de/ 

The most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faq



Diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.



You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/rsde