The Role
Lead and mentor backend engineers, manage backend projects, ensure technical excellence, collaborate with teams, and drive sustainable development.
Summary Generated by Built In
Mediatech
As one of the fastest-growing digital publishing houses in the world, Mediatech combines digital, tech, and content competencies to simplify complex information and make it accessible to everyone. Since launching Cybernews in 2019, expanding into Wellnesspulse, and creating a financial insights platform Investorsobserver, we have grown to a team of 300 in-house experts and over 200 global contributors.
Development team
Our developer team combines its expertise and each member has their own twist on specific areas. Our team is open-minded and willing to learn along the way as well.
You
We acknowledge that success starts with having the right people in the right place. If you live and breathe web technologies and want to build things and see how they perform in the real world, join our development tribe, and expand our forces!
WHAT WILL YOU DO
- Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, fostering collaboration and growth while ensuring technical excellence
- Take ownership of new backend projects, guiding them from the initial concept and MVP requirements through full-scale implementation
- Provide strategic solutions to technical challenges, maintaining a focus on system performance, scalability, and reliability
- Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business objectives.
- Oversee the design, development, and deployment of robust backend systems to support business needs
- Maintain high standards of code quality through clear documentation, thorough testing, and adherence to best practices
- Actively contribute to sustainable development practices while solving complex technical problems
- Drive the technical roadmap for backend systems, ensuring alignment with the organization’s long-term vision and goals
WE EXPECT YOU TO HAVE
- Confidence to be able to make decisions that allow us to have the best result
- The ability to mentor others effectively, foster team growth, and maintaining high standards in code quality
- Flexibility to adapt to media market changes that are part of the industry and be able to shift projects in needed direction. Sometimes this means to deliver best possible version and sometimes - quickly deliver MVP version
- Technical knowledge that allows you to lead and empower team members to deliver optimal results
- Curiosity and inspiration to investigate things on both business and technical perspectives
AT MEDIATECH YOU WILL GET
- Paid sick days and private health insurance that includes dental, vision, health checks, and 80% coverage for 25 psychotherapy sessions
- Access to premium mental health apps, onsite workouts, and gym membership support — all available during parental leave too
- Learning budget for courses, conferences, and books — your growth is always backed
- Extra days off, thoughtful gifts, and bonuses to celebrate life’s milestones like birthdays, weddings, and new arrivals
- Pet-friendly, centrally located office with game zones, healthy snacks, and cozy spaces to unwind
- Fun company events, fitness challenges, and team-building activities that actually connect people
- Additional vacation days the longer you stay — because recharging is essential
GROSS SALARY
- 4500 - 6300 EUR/month. Keep in mind that we are open to discuss a different salary based on your skills and competencies
Top Skills
Backend Development
PHP
Web Technologies
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The Company
What We Do
As a media group, we combine digital, tech, and content competencies to simplify complex information and make it accessible to everyone. Since launching Cybernews in 2019, expanding into Healthnews, and creating a financial insights platform, we have grown to a team of 250 in-house experts and over 150 global contributors.
Check our available positions at mediatech.one/careers
