Junior Software Engineer - Aftonbladet

Schibsted News Media Products & Technology
We are looking for a junior software engineer, with specific knowledge in frontend and javascript programming. We are looking for you who just graduated or are about to graduate from the university and are looking for your first job after your studies. Together we will develop services and features in order to bring value to Aftonbladet and further media houses within Schibsted.

WHO WE ARE
Our department, the Aftonbladet development team, has around 25 team members in product management, UX and technology. We focus 100% on Aftonbladet, and we do that also with the support of the Schibsted News Media organisation, with 250+ experts in product management, UX and technology. Together we build new digital products and technical platforms for Aftonbladet, VG, Svenska Dagbladet and many other Norwegian news outlets, enabling independent journalism to thrive, with products people love.

You will be part of a development team that works with Aftonbladet, Sweden’s biggest news source, engaging more than 3.5 million people on a daily basis. Our vision is to make Sweden a little bit better, the world a little more understandable and life a little bit easier.

We like to innovate 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. Our mission is to take Aftonbladet forward through superior user experience.

A little peek at the stack: JavaScript, React, Node.js, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, REST, CI/CD, AWS.

Get to know more about the team and our challenges here: https://bit.ly/2Rh3MX

WHO YOU ARE

- You have, or you are about to finish your degree in Computer Science or similar
- You can work in a team
- You demonstrate respect for and trust in your colleagues, as we respect and trust you
- You have a passion to produce quality code and to solve technical challenges
- You enjoy working data-driven with user experiments to test different hypothese

WHAT YOU WILL BE WORKING WITH

- You’ll be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
- You will design and develop features to enrich Aftonbladet’s user experience
- You contribute to the development of new ideas for new features
- Building a high performance website for millions of users
- You will work closely with the Aftonbladet stakeholders, data analysts and SEO-colleagues in order to attract a broad audience, form habits of high engagement and deliver on the societal-journalistic mission. Your work might have a great impact on scaling successful experiments developed with your team and helping on building common platform parts in order to bring value to further media houses.

As a member of the team, you will be part of a high speed, inclusive and fun environment where openness, collaboration, innovation and passion is 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. You will learn a lot and lay the foundation for your career!

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. We want you to grow!
Schibsted also works with 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.