Software Engineer - Aftonbladet

We are looking for a full stack software engineer with experience and interest to work with scaling successful experiments developed with your brand team and helping on building common platform parts in order to bring value to Aftonbladet and further media houses.

WHO WE ARE

You will work with Aftonbladet, Sweden’s biggest news source, engaging more than 4 million people on a daily basis. Aftonbladet’s mission is: “Aftonbladet aim to make Sweden a little bit better, the world a little more understandable and life a little bit easier ”.

Our organisation, Schibsted News Media, has 300+ experts in product management, UX and technology. We build new digital products and technical platforms for Schibsted and Aftonbladet, enabling independent journalism thrive with products people love.

We like to experiment and challenge our technology choices as much as possible 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 and then we succeed.

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://schibsted.com/blog/they-make-sure-swedens-favorite-news-product-runs-smoothly/

WHO YOU ARE

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer with Node.js and React competence.

If you have a passion to solve complex development problems and produce the highest quality code while striving to push the technical boundaries of online applications, then you would most likely enjoy what we do!

Experience with Docker, CI/CD, and AWS is a plus. Also, if you have experience within dev-ops and an agile mindset. We think that you have at least three years of experience within web development.

WHAT YOU WILL BE WORKING WITH

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Continuously designing and developing new features to push Aftonbladet’s products to the next level.

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Experimenting with new technologies and solutions.

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Work data-driven with user experiments to test different hypotheses.

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Addressing problems, defining tech solutions and collaboratively working with other teams to solve challenges and integrate applications in a cloud environment.

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Ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

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Working with data scientists and analysts to improve software.


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 brand 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.

We support each other in our curiosity by encouraging knowledge sharing in a creative environment! We run internal tech forums, lean coffee, meetups, open tracks etc. We have an internal company for learning and development, which we continuously work together with in order to have an updated training catalogue, with tech, product and leadership courses. We have 10% days, meaning you can spend every tenth working day to innovation, learning or experimenting with new solutions and technologies.

Schibsted also works with open source, here are some of our contributions: https://schibsted.github.io/



Product & Tech is responsible for product development in News Media. The unit consists of product managers, software engineers, UX experts, and user researchers. A big part of our work is developing joint technology platforms for Schibsted’s news brands. These include platforms for content production and distribution, digital subscriptions, and advertising. Most of our teams work distributed, with colleagues in Oslo, Stockholm, Krakow, Gdansk, Bergen, and Stavanger.