Senior Backend Engineer with DevOps Expertise (m/f/d)

• Your work significantly contributes to the improvement and further development of our Marketplace products (jobs.derstandard.at, finden.at and immobilien.derstandard.at).
• You contribute to build and evolve the infrastructure that powers our platforms — from scalable backend systems to reliable and secure deployments.
• You have a considerable influence on the technical direction we take (stack, tools, patterns, guidelines, infrastructure choices).
• A great personal and professional development.
• If you want to know more about current projects and the team behind it, you are welcome to visit our blog!

• You have several years of experience as a backend developer and/or DevOps engineer, and a solid understanding of web applications, APIs, containers, infrastructure, and databases.
• You are proficient in development with TypeScript preferably or other modern languages.
• You have hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., Lambda, S3, ECS, CloudFront) and infrastructure-as-code tools like CDK or Terraform.
• Docker, Git, Node.js, and CI/CD pipelines are familiar working environments for you.
• You enjoy building and automating robust, scalable infrastructure to support growing products.
• You are interested in further developing one of the leading job and real estate platforms as part of a team.
• You enjoy working in a team with agile methodologies, modern tools, and cloud-native platforms.
• You want to contribute to the long-term vision of the product, both from a development and infrastructure perspective.

• Betriebsärzt:in
• Homeoffice
• Mitarbeiter:innenvergünstigung
• Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten
• Gute Erreichbarkeit / Zentrale Lage
• Technische Ausstattung
• Zusätzliche Vorsorge

We enjoy keeping a sense of fun in our work, even when things get busy, and we place great value on clear, open communication at eye level. Since we are a distributed team, we collaborate mainly in English.

Home office arrangement: 3 days a week presence desired

For us, diversity and inclusion are firmly anchored in our corporate culture. We therefore welcome all applications, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, ethnic origin or sexual identity and orientation.

We offer an annual gross salary for full-time (37 hours per week) starting at EUR 70,000, with a willingness to overpay depending on qualifications and experience.

Company Information

STANDARD Medien AG is one of the most modern and largest media companies in Austria. In addition to the multi-channel news and discourse medium DER STANDARD, STANDARD Marketplaces and the sales service and corporate publishing agency velcom are also under the umbrella of Medien AG, based in the center of Vienna.

First published as a quality newspaper in 1988, today's STANDARD Medien AG (then DER STANDARD) has grown into a group with over 500 employees that has significantly changed Austria's media landscape and actively promotes social discourse in Austria.

Since January 1, 2017, this has been happening under the leadership of Alexander Mitteräcker, the sole member of the Management Board of AG

DER STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft: DER STANDARD is a liberal medium. Whether as a newspaper, online at derStandard.at or in the forum: as the fourth estate of the state, it has a great responsibility to inform society with independent, fact-based news and, as Austria's largest discourse platform, to encourage as diverse an exchange as possible at eye level. 

DER STANDARD Marketplaces: In addition to the in-house real estate and job search platforms, finden.at is another brand that rounds off the STANDARD's wide range of services.

velcom: velcom GmbH was created as a merger of the sales division of the daily newspaper DER STANDARD and the corporate publishing agency Egger & Lerch. It is aimed at companies that want to strengthen their market presence and increase their sales success.

IMPORTANT LINKS AND INFORMATION

Product & Engineering Blog:

We have our own blog, which is filled by our Product & Engineering team. Here you can get insights into the team and which topics we are currently working on or which tech stack we are working with. Click here to get more information. 

Marketplaces Development Blog

Our development team in the Marketplaces division also has its own blog, which is well worth reading. If you are still looking for up-to-date information, you will most likely find it here!