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! 

• Contribute, build and iterate on the biggest news application in Europe
• Ensuring best coding practices and high standards for code quality
• Collaborate with backend and other mobile developers for continuous improvement
• Prototype and recommend the best solutions to open problems

• You have solid experience in Swift
• Successfully published some apps on the App Store (name the apps in your CV or Cover letter)
• Passion for writing readable code and automated tests to ensure code quality
• You have a deep understanding of design patterns and layered architecture
• You follow agile software development with focus on continuous delivery and product discovery
• You are a team player and therefore have good communication skills

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 & Kununu 

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!
Because I am your contact partner for this position: 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.