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

This is the impact you will have in this position

• 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!

What we are looking for

• 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.

That’s what you can expect

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.

Start date: As soon as possible
Place of work: Vienna
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 60,000, with a willingness to overpay depending on qualifications and experience.

If you are interested in this position, we look forward to receiving your detailed application documents addressed to Judith Gangl at www.derStandard.at/wirsuchen.