Tech Lead

At DN Media Group, we work to create products and solutions that allow our journalism to shine and give the reader the insight they need to make better decisions.

As a Tech Lead in the Consumer Business (CB) Core, you will be a part of a team that impacts all our digital products and publications. The team is working on critical and exciting projects focusing on several aspects of the customer lifecycle for both our corporate customers, and end-users. This includes everything from user retention and engagement, to personalizing the customer journey and making it simple and frictionless to use our services.

Your strategic role:

• You will be leading a distributed cross-functional team including developers and designers, as well as working closely with experts in other areas such as digital marketing, and subscription. 
• Apart from day-to-day development you will also work closely with the product and design teams to ensure we deliver high quality products and services, ensure efficient development and management of our services, and act as an important link between business and the technical team. 
• You will be reporting to the Head of Engineering and contribute with developing and implementing technical strategies.

Your day-to-day:

• You will lead the technical development and guide how the CB Core team operates, while having a hands-on approach to developing and improving functionality.
• Foster close collaboration with other cross-functional teams to develop and optimize our subscription stack, ensuring the delivery of compelling journalistic content to our global audience.
• Embrace modern development patterns and agile processes to foster efficient collaboration between the product and development teams.
• Contribute to the ongoing modernization of our technology stack by transitiong to a microservice architecture hosted on AWS. The backbone of our stack is constructed using a Java backend, complemented by Django for client applications.
• Drive the migration from a private and local environement, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) written in Terraform
• Utilize Javascript on the frontend, using frameworks such as Node, Nuxt, and Vue to increase our use experience.

Your background:

• Established leadership experience, of either local or remote teams.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Java, or similar as main programming languages
• Can demonstrate a strong understanding of Vue/Node, or other frontend technologies
• Can bring solid expertise in cloud platforms / cloud operation, migration to the cloud, or familiarity with gitHub Actions and DevOps methodologies
• A strong DevOps mindset with experience setting up pipelines, scripting, and utilizing Terraform for infrastructure as a code
• Fluent in both English and Norwegian

To learn more about what is on offer for you as a new colleague take a look at the People & Culture department at career pages.

We will consider applications even if you do not meet every single one of the above requirements, so do not be put off if you don’t match them perfectly!

What does DN Media Group stand for?

We are an equal opportunities employer who wants to attract qualified applicants regardless to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity! 

DN Media Group is a global media group seeking to grow and strengthen our position as leading media group in our prioritized areas: business news, seafood, shipping, and energy. We have a global presence with publications in English and Norwegian as well as offices around the world (Oslo, London, Stamford/New York, and Singapore being the biggest hubs). Significant investments are allocated to our technology platforms, and we develop continuously existing and new solutions to meet our target group’s needs. Our publications are highly rewarded for the journalism (Dagens Næringsliv has won the SKUP prize 20 times) and our innovative solutions.