Junior Software Engineer (f/m/d)

Purpose of the position Weʼre looking for an experienced Software Engineer for a new team in our Advertiser tribe to accelerate the delivery of our brand new Affiliate Marketing platform. You Working within one of our agile Engineering teams, you will report to an Engineering Manager. You will collaborate closely with other engineers, UX, and product managers to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and well-tested software for our award-winning marketing platform. You are responsible for writing clean, secure and well-tested code, follow best-practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines. Your code is open by default and easy for others to reuse. You are part of a team and with the team extend, maintain and operate assigned parts of our platform. You coach and mentor more junior colleagues, participate in knowledge-sharing activities both within your team and the wider Engineering practice. You have a good understanding of the user needs within your service and work with the product manager and other team members to translate these into technical solutions. You work through the entire lifecycle of a service or product, from understanding requirements, development to deployment, support and maintenance. You show an understanding for deadlines, find pragmatic solutions and are proactive in raising potential risks. You will help the team in solving the challenges that arise as our business grows and develops; working together to ensure the service continues to meet the needs of our business and its customers. The Team  This role is within Team Argonauts in our Advertiser Tribe, part of the Growth Domain. This team are dedicated to serve our Advertisers by building the high value features that they need in our new Affiliate Marketing platform. Team Argonauts is a brand new team - a mix between new hires and new joiners from other teams. This gives you the opportunity to do more than just code and create great software. Youʼll be able to support your new colleagues, influence ways of working and best practices, and establish the culture in this new team. Along with access to the OʼReilly learning platform, hackathons, and cross-team initiatives, will provide plenty of opportunities to learn and gain experience from people in the many other teams across the engineering organisation at Awin. Skills & Expertise Soft Skills The experience in the technologies and the expertise listed below are as important to us as the soft skills that you have. We are interested in people who are open, enthusiastic, and interested in positively contributing to the culture of the team. We are passionate about continuous improvement, and are seeking people who can demonstrate a growth mindset and how they have learnt from mistakes. We value everyoneʼs opinion and experience as much as we value delivering and team cohesion, and we consider a challenge and commit mindset to be crucial to balance these. Hard Skills Required * At least 3 years of hands-on experience in commercial Software Engineering roles. * Good experience working with front-end code, ideally using Angular. * Extensive experience in developing cloud software using: * AWS services - Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Opensearch * Terraform for writing Infrastructure as Code scripts * Typescript * Java v21 with Maven, and Spring Boot v3 Docker * Understanding of relational database design principles, SQL query optimisation, and proficiency in SQL and non-relational databases like DynamoDB. * Experience and an enthusiasm for using and finding new ways to use AI tools to augment software development practices. * Experience using Git for source control * Passion for writing elegant code and a desire to constantly refactor and improve, with a good understanding of the SOLID principles. *  Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs within a microservices architecture. * Ability to conduct a thorough code review process, write unit tests and maintain CI/CD pipelines. * Familiar with agile processes eg. Scrum or Kanban. * Experience in monitoring applications (preferably using Cloudwatch and Datadog). Nice to have * Knowledgeable about information security, able to design and implement solutions with mitigation against security threats. * Knowledge of TDD and Pair Programming practices. * Experience working with PHP, including building and maintaining web applications. * Experience with cache solutions such as Redis, Memcached, or other. * Experience with streaming and queuing solutions (ideally Kafka, Kinesis or SQS). Our Offer * Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves. * Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately. * Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions * Meal Vouchers: You will be supported with a certain net sum to spend it on a variety of lunches. * Health & Wellbeing: The insurance covers several types of health, vision and / or dental treatments for you and for up to one additional family member. * Remote Working Furniture Package: After 3 months of employment, you will be eligible for a furniture package, which should enable you to set up a proper workplace at your remote working location * Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program. Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture. Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities. Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why   Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.

Purpose of position Working within one of our growing, agile Engineering teams, this role reports to an Engineering Manager. You will be working closely with your team members to write SOLID, secure & well-tested code, implement new features and maintain our award-winning marketing platform. As a Software Engineer, you are a passionate and innovative technologist with a proactive, quality first approach to development. You are an expert in your technical stack, able to code quickly and efficiently while contributing to design and infrastructure discussions. You enjoy coaching and mentoring junior colleagues to improve their skills, extending their awareness from the codebase to include topics such as quality, environments and delivery. We design performant, state-of-the-art software on AWS with a focus on Kafka, Docker and serverless technologies, such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB. Finally, we bring our products to life with JavaScript-related technologies (Node.js, TypeScript, Angular). Key Tasks Key responsibilities within this role include: * Code development, refactoring and innovation. * Build new products and help shape development technologies and practices. * Help re-engineer and continuously improve existing applications. * Work with Product Managers to convert ideas to user stories and user stories to features and tasks *  Grapple with business logic and help solve business needs. * Design and build distributed systems using streaming and queueing solutions. * Work with a wide range of technologies as needed and be encouraged to experiment and drive change. * Adapt quickly and flexibly to different projects and processes, and cope well with changing stakeholders. * Work in a small team of passionate software engineers on the entire life cycle of a service or product. * Develop code and contribute to reviews, retrospectives, planning and development sessions. * Contribute to group development initiatives and discussions. * Troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely fashion when required. * Communicate effectively in both verbal (day-to-day discussions, team meetings) and written forms (documentation, emails, communication tools) with local and remote team members. Whilst the above is a guide to general expectation of the role, we expect this position to evolve allowing you greater scope to gain both knowledge and experience within the online and affiliate marketplace. Skills & Expertise To be successful you should ideally meet the below requirements: * Minimum 3 years commercial Software Engineering experience. * Proven track record with any OOP (ideally Java, Python, .NET, Node.js), RESTful APIs and Microservices, unit testing, relational databases. * We are curently working with Node.js & Typescript as a backend techonologies. * General experience with web technologies and practices. * Building systems cloud-first (Docker, AWS - Lambda, DynamoDB, and related serverless technologies) but any cloud solution experience is welcomed. * Experience with streaming and queuing solutions (ideally Kafka, Kinesis or SQS). * You are open to trying new approaches, technical and procedural, and happy to touch modern Angular frontend code from time to time. * Experience working within a cross-functional engineering team alongside Product Owners, UX Designers and Agile Coaches. * Strong knowledge of Git and agile processes. * Exposure to TDD or BDD practices. * Non-relational databases (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB). * Maintaining CI/CD pipelines * Working on subscription or high-volume transactional systems. * Experience in monitoring applications.     Our Offer  * Flexi-Week: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing by offering you a four-day Flexi-Week (with one lighter or completely disconnected day per week) at full pay, with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. * Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our hybrid working model, designed to foster collaboration, trust, and autonomy. * Work Expense Contribution & Remote Working Furniture: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs, as well as a furniture package to support you in setting up a comfortable workspace at home. * Private Medical Insurance: Comprehensive coverage for a range of health, vision and dental treatments. * Meal Vouchers: Daily support for your lunch expenses. * Screen Working Glasses: We offer a subsidy towards the cost of glasses required for screen work. In addition, you’ll benefit from our global offering, including health and wellbeing initiatives, learning and development via Awin Academy, and peer-to-peer recognition programmes. Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture. Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities. Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why   Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.