Company Description
Axel Springer is an international media and technology company with a portfolio that includes leading news brands such as BILD and WELT in Germany, ONET in Poland, and globally recognized brands like POLITICO and Business Insider. Our mission is to empower free decisions by providing trusted information.
We have completed the transformed from a traditional print publisher into a digital-first company and we continue to to push the pace of product and engineering innovation.
Our strategy is clear. We aim to become the leading AI enabled publisher in the democratic world. Artificial intelligence is not a side initiative for us. It is a core capability embedded across our products and workflows.
We believe that strong journalism is a pillar of democratic societies. If this mission resonates with you, you will find a clear sense of purpose here. Your engineering work helps millions of people access reliable information every day.
As a Staff Android Engineer, you’ll build and ship features for high-traffic news apps in a Kotlin-first codebase (Compose, Coroutines/Flow), iterating in small increments and measuring impact in production. You’ll own problems end-to-end — from architecture decisions to testing, CI/CD, rollout, and on-call-level reliability. You’ll join Axel Springer Tech in Berlin, the team behind the digital products and mobile apps for our national news brands BILD and WELT.
We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies.
Our five essentials are the values that unite us and guide us in our commitment to freedom.
Job Description
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own the end-to-end development of top-rated Android apps using Kotlin, Coroutines/Flow, Jetpack Compose, Dagger/Hilt, Retrofit, and Espresso.and other modern technologies
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design and evolve a modular architecture that remains maintainable over years and performs reliably under high traffic
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advance automation: build, test, release, and rollout pipelines as a first-class part of the product (CI/CD)
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act as a technical multiplier by raising quality standards in reviews, coaching teammates, and sharing knowledge across Android teams
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shape features from idea to release with product, design, and editorial stakeholders — optimizing for user value, reliability, and speed
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explore and apply AI-assisted development tooling to improve developer productivity and quality, with a clear engineering rationale
Qualifications
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you have 8+ years of hands-on Android engineering experience, including multiple shipped apps at scale.
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strong Kotlin (and solid Java) skills; deep knowledge of Jetpack libraries; practical experience with MVVM/Clean Architecture
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expertise in Coroutines/Flow, dependency injection, and disciplined unit/integration testing
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experience with multi-module codebases and patterns that enable parallel development and long-term maintainability
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drive performance and build system maturity by applying Baseline Profiles, Gradle convention plugins, or equivalent practices
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a strong CI and CD mindset with a focus on automation, testing, and release engineering as integral parts of product development
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clear communication in cross-functional teams (PM, design, backend).
Additional Information
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your personal growth is important to us: we offer trainings and learning lunches, tech conferences, a budget for workshops and much more to expand your knowledge and your skills
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Employee offers that suit you and your life situation: Whether it's a discounted public transport ticket or JobRad leasing, a bicycle garage (incl. regular bicycle service), childcare facilities or a modern in-house kindergartens
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30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
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our free food offer: we offer free lunch in our canteens
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we offer guidance on the administrative side of relocation and visa processes through our relocation agency
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collaboration thrives on direct exchange - we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
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from now a permanent full- or part-time position in a modern office in the heart of Berlin: http://www.axelspringer-neubau.de/
The most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faq
Diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.
You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/rsde
