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

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.

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 our compass in our commitment to freedom.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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