Apache Solr Jobs

As a Full Stack Developer, you will contribute to the continuous development of our search engine, intelligence platform, and monitoring solutions. Together with developers, product managers, and designers, you will build AI-driven products and services for our B2B clients. You will take ownership of both backend and frontend topics and help deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performing applications.

We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies.
Our five essentials are the values that unite us and guide us in our commitment to freedom

• you develop new platform features to continuously increase customer value
• you optimize existing code to improve maintainability and performance
• together with developers, product managers, and designers, you shape AI-driven products and services
• you design and orchestrate agents and AI-native intelligence flows to enhance data-driven solutions
• with your experience, you resolve bugs and critical incidents to ensure service reliability
• improve our custom scraping system as a foundation for high-quality data

• you hold a degree in Web Development, Software Engineering or a comparable field
• you have more than five years of experience building and maintaining Laravel applications in production environments
• you apply PHP, MySQL or MariaDB, Git, and unit testing with confidence
• with your frontend expertise, you work effectively with Vite, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Vue.js, and Inertia.js
• experience with Apache Solr, embedding and LLM frameworks, as well as Claude and OpenAI APIs is a plus
• you bring strong communication skills, flexibility and a structured way of working
• you communicate fluently in English

• never stop learning! We offer you AI workshops as well as various courses/workshops for your professional and personal life
• collaboration thrives on direct exchange – we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
• Free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, there is also a free lunch in one of our employee restaurants
• Your discounts: Deutschlandticket, JobRad, Wellhub (gyms, classes, and personal trainers), various online shops, a selection of insurance options, and a capital-forming benefits subsidy
• Exceptional campus in the heart of Berlin with modern office spaces, co-working areas, and the coolest rooftop terrace in Berlin
• from now a permanent full- or part-time position

The most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faq

Diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/rsde