Senior JavaScript Developer to Aller Media

Do you want to be part of taking one of Sweden’s biggest media companies to the next level? Aller Media are now looking to hire a senior JavaScript developer to their Stockholm office.

You will be building everything from proof of concepts to production-ready solutions to fullfil their most prioritized strategic initiatives. For example, they are currently implementing a new video platform in production and testing out editorial apps with react native.

You will work closely with their head of editorial development and their business development team. As a partner in crime, you will have a highly skilled full stack developer and an extended development team of 20+ developers, mostly senior to help you if needed.



About Aller media

Aller media is one of Sweden's largest media houses and has delivered relaxation, entertainment and inspiration to millions of readers since 1873. They create and develop some of Sweden's most well-known brands such as Elle, Femina, MåBra and Hänt and they constantly develop new ways to engage, provide experiences and services to their readers, users, visitors and followers - both in print and digital media as well as in the physical world.

Their digital sites reach more than 4 million unique visitors every week and being digital-first is their top priority going forward hence they focus their investments on their digital solutions.

Aller Media has the vision to make women’s lives richer, a vision that not only guides what value they deliver to their readers and customers but also how they work with 75 % women employed in the company and an equal leadership team.

More about your role and your team

Together with one other developer, you will be responsible for both creating and implementing the technical solutions needed to fulfil the business needs for their growth initiatives.

They work with JavaScript as their main language for both frontend and backend and try to adhere to the latest standards. They have continuous delivery and continuous deployment set up and they push to production several times daily. They store everything on GitHub and use GitHub actions to deliver it to ESC clusters on AWS.

They organize themself in smaller cross-functional product teams where every team has a product owner who leads the team and a business owner who ensure that what they do are in line with business expectations. The team also consists of developers, designers, analysts and experts. The teams are self-organizing and drive the agenda for their area. They run around 10 of these smaller teams in parallel.

In a larger context, you will also be part of a development team of 20+ developers, who all are divided into the different smaller teams but really helpful if you ever need a hand.

What is it that makes their developers thrive at Aller? They have asked their developers why they like to work at Aller Media and these are some of their answers:

- Nice colleagues, reasonable workload, I have the opportunity to learn new things through collaboration with colleagues and on my own. We take time to help out and we are kind to each other.
- That my opinions are listened to and the level of trust we have between each other.
- Friendly environment, Good attitudes from colleagues, Flexible work time.
- I think there is a good and open atmosphere between colleagues and managers. No negative stress. I am respected and my work is appreciated.


Who are you?

You have several years of experience working as a web developer. You manage your work and thrive with great responsibility. Problem-solving is one of your great driving forces, but also to deliver quality solutions.

You like to tackle problems even if you do not know exactly how to solve them but learn along the way and are therefore good at acquiring new knowledge on your own.

You master both front-end and back-end well but are perhaps extra good at one of them.

You can translate functional requirements into a technical solution and you can communicate with ease with people who are less technical than you.

It is also a great plus if you have experience from other publishers or media companies.

You probably also have experience with some of these technologies:

- Frontend - HTML, SASS/SCSS, JavaScript (ES6+) - Some modern JavaScript framework (i.e. React, React Native, Vue)
- Backend - Node.js
- Databases - SQL - NoSQL
- Cloud services (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure or similar)


What Aller Media offers you

You will work in a company in constant development where no two days are the same. It is a creative environment where everything is possible. At Aller Media they have a pepping culture where they work towards common goals and support each other. At Aller, you get an important role at an exciting and creative workplace in a media house where they like change. Aller Media is a company with a lot of love for their employees, users and customers!

They have collective agreements, occupational pension, wellness allowance, subsidized massage, events and shared breakfasts, etc. The office is located right by Östermalmstorg in Stockholm city. Every month they run a hack day, where you get to choose something you want to test or learn more about and focus on it for a day.