Javascript Full Stack Engineer - Aftonbladet

Schibsted News Media Products & Technology
We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer with experience and interest to work with scaling successful experiments and helping on building common platform parts in order to bring value to Aftonbladet and further media houses within Schibsted

WHO WE ARE

Schibsted News Media is the largest media group in Scandinavia. Our world-class media houses include the leading news destinations in Norway and Sweden. With our exceptional journalism, high editorial independence, and strong digital development we keep shaping the media landscape of today and tomorrow.

In Aftonbladet Product & Tech we provide the 4 million daily users of Aftonbladet with a superior news experience through digital products. Our key to success is a close collaboration between Product, Technology, and UX and a strong commitment to our journalistic mission.

We like to experiment to create amazing user experiences. We are humble and care a lot about our craft, always helping each other to become better at it. We test, we fail, and learn.

A little peek at our stack: JavaScript, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Travis CI, AWS (CDK, CloudFront, ECS, Lambda, SNS, SQS).

Get to know more about the team and our challenges here: https://bit.ly/2Rh3MXx

WHO YOU ARE

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You have at least five years of experience as a Software Engineer and are confident with both frontend and backend development using Javascript or Typescript.

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You have a positive, team-oriented behavior and you enjoy collaboration.

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You love to solve complex development problems and produce quality code.

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Using your experience, you are always looking for ways to collaborate, share your knowledge, and give your team that competitive edge.

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You understand the challenges when working with a top-class media website with millions of users.


WHAT YOU WILL BE WORKING WITH

- Continuous design and development of new features to push Aftonbladet’s products to the next level.
- Addressing problems, defining tech solutions and collaborating with other teams inside and outside of Aftonbladet.
- Collaborate with others to identify, plan, develop, and implement systems that will support the future vision of our company. This includes actively networking with people and sharing knowledge; both within Aftonbladet and across Schibsted.
- Ongoing assessments of capabilities, performance and costs of our technical infrastructure.
- Define and measure success metrics, research new solutions and technologies and recommend changes based on analysis of their impact to all users requirements

SOME OF OUR BENEFITS

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Besides insurance, you will have an occupational pension.

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Parental pay.

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Vacation days (30) + 3 ATK days + half days.

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Health promotion allowance.

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Benify.


As a member of the team, you will be part of a high-speed, inclusive and fun environment where openness, collaboration, innovation, and passion are key. You will work with talented people and will be making an impact on how journalism is consumed as well as shaping the digital news media business of tomorrow.

We support each other in our curiosity by encouraging knowledge sharing in a creative environment. We highly value our 10% day, one day every two weeks where you can focus only on your own personal development.

Schibsted is - at its heart - a digital product and tech company. We have an ambitious mission to provide leading online marketplaces, build world-class media houses, and help great companies scale. To enable engineers to build their careers inside our company, we encourage internal mobility to help you acquire new experiences and help build our company through our shared values.

We believe in empowering people in their daily lives! One way of doing this is through the power of open-source, here are some of our contributions: https://schibsted.github.io/


Schibsted is a family of digital brands with a strong Nordic position, and more than 5,000 employees. Millions of people interact with our companies every day through our leading online marketplaces, world-class media houses. We also help new promising businesses grow. Our joint mission of empowering people in their daily lives is rooted in the values of our media heritage and a legacy of bold change. At our best, we are a fearless force for change in a society built on trust and transparency.

Product & Tech is responsible for product development and technology platforms for News Media brands. The unit consists of product managers, software engineers, UX experts, and user researchers. Most of our teams work distributed, with colleagues in Oslo, Stockholm, Krakow, Gdansk, Bergen, and Stavanger.