Senior Software Engineer - Aftonbladet

Schibsted News Media Products & Technology
We are looking for a frontend 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
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+ people in the same area. 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.

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, AWS, Datadog, Pingdom, Terraform, Kubernetes.

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

WHO YOU ARE

- You have at least five years of experience as a software engineer, and big parts of this experience within frontend and javascript development.
- You have a positive, team-oriented behavior and you enjoy collaboration.
- You love to solve complex development problems and produce quality code.
- Using your experience, you are always looking for ways to collaborate, share your knowledge and to give your team that competitive edge.
- 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

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.

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 career 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.