upday is a media and tech company and the leading news app in Europe with more than 25 million MAUs. Founded in 2016 as a joint project between Axel Springer and Samsung Electronics, upday became profitable after just 3 years in the market.  

If you’re looking to join a dynamic and international team full of fantastic talent that has the energy of a start-up but the stability of an established media company - look no further, we are your match! 

• You design and implement complex, appealing and high-quality web applications
• You interact with engineers, product owners, designers and other teams every day, where you apply your excellent communication skills in an agile working environment
• You apply testing ruthlessly but not soft-headed and constantly push the highest quality code
• You are a strong problem-solver, you're proactive and organized with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment providing consistent output without compromising quality
• You are always curious and seek to continuously learn new abilities and skills
• You mentor and support other developers in the Frontend Team and help them grow

• You have at least 5 years of experience in developing and maintaining web applications by using the web framework React
• You can read and write code in EC5, EC6, ES2017, and TypeScript
• You integrated REST APIs in the past
• You have knowledge in web performance and speed optimizations
• You are experienced in creating and maintaining web applications on touch and no-touch devices
• You have maintained/migrated a legacy web application to a new version before
• You are experienced in working with multiple clients and projects
• You are experience as a Team Lead and in mentoring other team mates

Experience in any of the below would be a plus:

• Experience with a real-time shared content web application, e.g. Google, Microsoft Office, Evernote
• Knowledge about using additional modern web frameworks like Vue or Angular
• Integrated AdSense (Google/AWS AdSense) in a web application

Why joining us? 

• New Work atmosphere with flat hierarchies, fast decision-making processes and an inspiring high-pace environment 
• A great opportunity to work with talented and diverse colleagues from different departments of the upday family (technology, product, marketing, editorial) 
• In addition to free drinks, fresh fruit, you will receive discounts in the Axel Springer canteen|restaurant and benefit from other advantages of belonging to the company 
• We are located in a brand new and terrific open-plan office in the heart of Berlin 
• This position is possible fully-remote or hybrid
• A lot of team building event such as summer party, lasertag, christmas party, boat party, karaoke 
• Frequent pizza and beer events and afterworks on our 360 rooftop 
• Queer seite regroups LGBTQIA + people working for AS group who organise events, talks and pushes LGBTQAI+ agenda within the AS group and drives new projects to make AS more inclusive. 
• Every year we do an employee nps survey to measure satisfaction 
• Feel free to check our alumnis reviews on Glassdoor & Kunulu 

What we offer? 

• We provide an onboarding in terms of office equipment in all of the regions and countries through an external service provider (Mac or Microsoft notebook, and Samsung phone) 
• We provide visa advisory support through a external service provider 
• We participate and or host a lot of amazing events such as Tech Con | Women in Tech | Women mentoring programm | Hackathons  | congresses | job fairs

Are you interested? Looking forward to reading your application! 
Your partner of contact for this position is Stella Bailleux.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs (impostor syndrome) unless they meet every single qualification. At upday we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

A small insight into how we live and implement diversity and inclusion at upday can be found here: https://www.diversity.axelspringer.com/di-stories/upday

We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.