Desired Skills and Experience

  • We build and operate welt.de – one of the fastest full-responsive news portals in the world
  • We are a cross-functional team creating the products that show off and monetise the journalistic content to its maximum potential
  • We believe in the benefits of a service oriented architecture, full automation of our infrastructure and the fast pace of independent teams
  • We implement, manage and support our own stack running on AWS using Docker, preferring managed services whenever possible
  • You are a talented engineer with experience using cloud service providers, containerization platforms and configuration management tools
  • You write code in Ruby, Go or Python (Java is a plus)
  • You have experience initiating or jumping into complex projects and following them though to success
  • You have delivered several projects, engaging non-technical stakeholders in the process of delivering working software and have learned from difficult and challenging projects
  • You are not afraid to engage people you disagree with. You create positive, constructive conversations using objective statements and data, and people value your contributions to a debate
  • You are a passionate, intelligent person who is a techie at heart. Making a difference is what drives you
  • You feel at-home working in a fast-moving team