Front end developer

Do you have a visionary mind and a fearless desire to challenge the status quo? Do you have a passion for technology and want to develop digital media products that outclass the competition and touch and delight millions of people in their everyday life? If this is you, come and work with us. We are seeking Software Engineers to be part of our great software engineering team.

You will develop digital products for Schibsted Publishing’s different brands. You will be central to our effort to continuously reinvent how news and new media products are being experienced. You will be part of Schibsted Publishing is a business area within Schibsted Media Group. With Aftonbladet as the largest brand, Schibsted Publishing also includes the leading news products Omni, Politism and Lajkat and the new media products TV.nu, Viktklubb, Klart.se, Allt om Stockholm, Minimedia, and The You Way.

Schibsted Media Groups vision is "Empowering people in their daily life" and our group philosophy is built on keeping an open mind, challenging ourselves and the status quo. The goal is to shape the future of our industry. To achieve this we recruit attitude. If you are driven, ambitious, not afraid of challenges and thrive on finding new solutions, we want to hear from you. Our commitment to work with technology solutions supporting innovation, rapid launches and iterations, while keeping stability and effective management of current products and services

Responsibilities

• Write beautiful code that is modern, correct, secure and easy to maintain
• Working in a multi-disciplinary agile team, develop code that can be integrated into many disparate properties
• Prototyping, developing and testing complex desktop web and mobile applications
• Be involved in a full spectrum of front-end engineering, including new features and new applications
• Develop and implement systems using best practices and tools
• Document and communicate them with stakeholders at all levels
• Be committed to code optimization, maintainability, and quality
• Be creative and experiment with new solutions Optimize web applications for maximum speed and scale
• Support diverse clients from desktop computers to “lightweight” mobile devices
• Keep on top of the latest and greatest technology developments
• Participate and contribute in a variety of development meetings, competence forums and hackdays

Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent practical experience
• Good understanding of interaction and visual design principles and tools
• Excellent experience in web development for both desktop and mobile platforms
• Deep expertise in Javascript and it’s various crossplatform and crossbrowser quirks
• Extensive experience from HTML5 and CSS3
• Used some of the common Javascript frameworks as React, Backbone or Angular and libraries
• An extra bonus is if you have good understanding of some backend like Java and MySQL
• Experience with mobile technologies, Objective-C, Swift, and others is a plus
• Knowledge of using RESTful APIs
• Used to work with Git and Github
• Well versed with javascript build tools like Webpack, Gulp and Grunt.
• Strong understanding of web performance, scalability, and implementation constraints.
• You like to work in and has an background in an Agile environment
• High comfort level working with stakeholders at all levels toward a consensus
• Outstanding product creativity and instincts combined with a passion for bridging technology, design and user experience

You will join Schibsted Publishing IT development team Qualifications

Aftonbladet är Sveriges nyhetskälla och mötesplats för alla som gillar att vara uppdaterade. Vi har över tre miljoner dagliga läsare och besökare. Aftonbladet är störst i alla kanaler – mobil, webb och betald papperstidning. Aftonbladet ägs av mediekoncernen Schibsted Media Group (91 procent) och Landsorganisationen, LO (9 procent). Aftonbladet har cirka 400 anställda. Omsättningen var 2013 2,1 miljarder kronor och vinsten 283 miljoner kronor.

Aftonbladet satsar också stort på TV. Vi sänder direkt från studion på redaktionsgolvet över 1000 gånger per år. Dessutom producerar Aftonbladet en lång rad program som "Partiprogrammet", "Sportbladet News" och "Brottscentralen".