Senior Software Engineer (f/m/d)

Purpose of the Position

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional service-oriented team, working on extending and maintaining our Affiliate Marketing platform. Your responsibilities include writing clean, secure, and well-tested code, following best-practice guidelines, and collaborating with the team to operate and enhance assigned parts of the platform.

You will have a significant impact in terms of efficiency, problem-solving, and mentoring colleagues. Additionally, you will work closely with the product owner and team members to translate user needs into technical solutions. Throughout the lifecycle of a service or product, from requirements to deployment, support, and maintenance, you will take a leading role, considering deadlines, balancing effort and outcome, and proactively addressing risks.

Your contribution will be vital in overcoming challenges and ensuring that our service continues to meet the needs of our business and customers.

The Team

You will be joining our Rewards tribe, a cross functional team at the core of the business. We enable advertisers to define how they reward publishers and manage commissions and transactions using an event‑driven architecture. We use an exciting array of technologies, including Java/Spring, AWS Lambda, Kafka, NodeJS, SQL/NoSQL databases, and more.

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Work within a small, collaborative team using agile methodologies and practices

• Take ownership of backend services, from design and implementation to operation and improvement

• Proactively advocate for technical improvements and help define engineering priorities

• Improve existing applications and design and build new solutions from scratch

• Contribute to code reviews, planning sessions, retrospectives, and other team ceremonies

• Help shape development technologies, standards, and engineering practices

• Follow best‑practice guidelines and contribute to their continuous improvement

• Work closely with Product Managers to translate user stories into technical designs, features, and tasks

• Tackle complex business logic and help solve real business problems

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner

• Communicate effectively in both written and verbal form with local and remote team members

Whilst the above outlines the general expectations of the role, we expect this position to evolve over time, offering opportunities to gain deeper knowledge and experience within the online and affiliate marketing domain.

Skills & Expertise

Required

• At least 6 years of hands‑on experience in commercial software engineering roles

• A positive, collaborative work ethic and strong sense of ownership

• Passion for writing elegant, maintainable code, with a solid understanding of SOLID principles

• Experience conducting thorough code reviews, writing unit tests, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Strong experience with Git or similar version control systems

• Experience with event‑driven architectures and messaging/streaming technologies

• Solid understanding of relational database concepts, database design principles, and strong SQL skills

• Experience with non‑relational databases such as DynamoDB or MongoDB

• Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs within a microservices architecture

• Experience working in cross‑functional teams alongside Product Owners, UX Designers, and Agile Coaches

• Familiarity with agile processes, particularly Scrum

• Knowledge of TDD or BDD practices

• Experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS, and Infrastructure as Code

• Interest in and practical use of AI tools to augment software development practices

• Willingness and ability to work with more than one programming language

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.

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