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.

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 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 Employee offers that suit you and your life situation: Whether it's a discounted public transport ticket or JobRad leasing, a bicycle garage (incl.

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. com/en/rsde