Job Description

Purpose of the Position

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional, service-oriented, customer-focused team working on extending, evolving, and operating Awin’s Affiliate Marketing platform for advertisers and publishers.

You will learn to build clean, secure, well-tested, and maintainable software, while following engineering best practices. You will collaborate closely with engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and QA to translate user needs into pragmatic technical solutions and deliver value through the full software lifecycle from requirements and development through deployment, monitoring, support, and continuous improvement.

The Team

You will join a collaborative engineering environment where teams:

• Build and operate scalable services and user-facing applications
• Work in modern agile delivery setups (Scrum/Kanban)
• Share knowledge within the team and the wider Engineering practice
• Take shared ownership for reliability, support, and operational excellence

Key Tasks & Accountabilities

Scope

• Develop and maintain high-quality software components (features, fixes, performance improvements, testing, and documentation)
• Work with more experienced engineers and actively seek feedback via code reviews, pair programming and mentoring sessions
• Collaborate to review requirements/specifications and implement low to medium complexity solutions
• Help the team operate and support its services (bug fixing, incident support, on-call contributions where applicable)
• Follow agreed best-practice guidelines, security expectations, and development processes
• Participate in knowledge sharing (demos, documentation, guild/practice sessions)

Interaction

• Frequent collaboration with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA within your team
• Coordinate with other teams when working on shared subsystems, APIs, or platform components
• Seek input and supervision from senior engineers and act on feedback constructively

Skills & Expertise

Required

• 1 - 3 years of experience in commercial software engineering roles
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) and software engineering fundamentals
• Proficiency in Java (v17+) and Spring Boot
• Knowledge of containerization tools like Docker
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and microservice architecture
• Knowledge on relational databases with strong SQL skills and exposure to NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• Proficiency with data structures and algorithms
• Understanding of agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
• Passion for writing clean, maintainable and testable code

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with frontend technologies (preferably Angular or similar frameworks)
• Experience working with serverless infrastructure - (e.g. AWS Lambda)
• Experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices
• Knowledge of Spring Batch, Spring Cloud, Spring Reactive
• Awareness of TDD, pair programming and code review practices
• Basic understanding of application monitoring, observability and security best practices
• Able to use AI-assisted tools across coding, testing, debugging, and documentation, while critically reviewing, validating, and taking full ownership of all AI-generated outputs.

Our Offer

• Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
• Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
• Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions
• Meal Vouchers: You will be supported with a certain net sum to spend it on a variety of lunches.
• Health & Wellbeing: The insurance covers several types of health, vision and / or dental treatments for you and for up to one additional family member.
• Remote Working Furniture Package: After 3 months of employment, you will be eligible for a furniture package, which should enable you to set up a proper workplace at your remote working location
• Appreciation Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program.

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.

Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.

Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why

Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.