Backend Developer at BurdaForward (m/f/x)

Through reliable and solution-oriented content, we at BurdaForwardhelp people in Germany to live a better life. With our leading publishing brands Focus Online, Chip, TV Spielfilm, Bunte.de, Finanzen100, NetMoms, The Weather Channel, EFahrer.com, Fit for fun, Cinema and Cardscoutand the latest technology, we inspire almost 70 percent of all Internet users in Germany (AGOF digital facts) and are a driving force in public debate - also by tradition: BurdaForwardis part of the family-owned company Hubert Burda Media.

Location:

Munich, Offenburg, Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg

What you can expect from us...

As a (Senior) Backend Developer you work with the team on one of the core elements of BurdaForwardpublishing platform: the mechanism that brings the most important content to the users where and when they need it.

• A small team: in additional to you, there is a product manager and yet another developer
• You’ll overtake the co-ownership of everything
• You’ll build proof-of-concepts as soon as possible, and afterwards you’ll migrate PoC code to the production
• Your services and their artifacts will contribute to the BF AI/ML effort

What we would expect from you...

• At least 3 years of practical experience as a software engineer
• Experienced with continuous integration and delivery
• Experience concurrency in real world projects
• Very good knowledge of TypeScript
• You have experience in unit and integration testing
• You can write a stateless code free of side effects
• Nice to have: Python and also ML, in particular NLP
• Our applied technologies and frameworks:
  • AWS, terraform
  • Serverless, microservices
  • TypeScript for services, Python for scripting
  • Gitlab
  • Snowflake as a data lake
  • Vespa.ai as a recommendation engine

What we can offer you...

• You create the BurdaForwardbrand world with content, services and products that make our more than 40 million users happy
• We love entrepreneurship! That’s why we support new business ideas financially and make it possible for you to build your own start-up
• You can expect an open, dynamic working environment with flat hierarchies and cooperative team colleagues with lots of good ideas
• Every life is different! We offer you flexible working hours and a flexible work location and as well a subsidy for daycare or kindergarten
• We will help you to train your individual skills - with mentoring, coaching opportunities and external training or training specifically designed for our business training in the internal BurdaForwardAcademy
• When you start, you will receive a smartphone and a laptop for professional and private use. Apple or Windows? Your choice!
• A wide range of benefits, such as subsidized meals during work, company pension plan, bicycle leasing program "BurdaBike", company health management including preventive medical checkups, discounts at fitness studios, sabbaticals, exclusive employee discounts and much more
• At BurdaForwardyou can get involved: in cooperation with our parent company, we have launched the PlanetForward sustainability initiative, with which we invite every business unit, every function - from HR to our start-up system - and every employee regardless of job title to make our internal and external activities more sustainable and regenerative.

Want to gain an impression of BurdaForwardbefore applying? Check out our YouTube channel.

Burda is colourful

We respect diversity and we therefore welcome all applications - independently of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion and ideology, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

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Please use our online application form to apply!