Full Stack Developer

Job Description:

POLITICO is seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer with a strong backend orientation to join our technology team based in Brussels. Political decision-making is distributed, disorganized, and generally hard to follow at a larger scale, this is the issue we work on at POLITICO. By collecting, normalizing, organizing and thoughtfully presenting information we give individuals and organizations greater insight into political processes around the world.

Note: This is a full-time position based in Brussels with a hybrid setup (4 days in the office, 1 day remote).

What You’ll Do

As a developer at POLITICO, you will work across our platform, contributing to systems that collect, process, and deliver critical political intelligence to our users. While the role is full stack, it is strongly backend-oriented. You will help design and build scalable services and data pipelines that power our POLITICO Pro platform.

Your work will include:

• Designing and developing backend services and APIs
• Building and improving data processing systems and background jobs
• Contributing to frontend applications when needed
• Working with modern cloud infrastructure and serverless architectures
• Participating in the evolution of our data and intelligence systems

An important part of the role is contributing to AI-enabled features within our platform. Our current work includes systems such as:

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
• Transcription and speech recognition and audio processing

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This work focuses primarily on AI integration and inference, rather than training models from scratch. We are looking for developers who are curious about these technologies, understand their core concepts, and are excited to build products powered by them.

AI will play an increasingly important role in our platform in the coming years. You will join an agile team that values strong engineering practices. We expect team members to actively contribute to improving our systems, code quality, and development practices.

What You’ll Need

We are looking for software engineers first, not specialists of a single language or framework. The ideal candidate is comfortable reasoning about programming languages, systems, and architecture, and can adapt to different technologies as needed. Requirements include:

• Strong experience building complex backend systems or multi-service architectures
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals and system design skills
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and modern web development
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Vue Solid understanding of asynchronous systems (message queues, distributed services, background processing)
• Ability to work across multiple parts of the stack

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Additional assets include:

• Experience with Java, React Native or Ruby on Rails
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Interest or experience in AI-enabled applications, LLM integration, RAG systems, or speech processing

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Other requirements:

• Fluency in English (additional European languages are a plus)
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Comfortable working in an international environment

We value our people

Our benefits package is built for you, and includes:   

• Our teams benefit from country-specific, competitive compensation and benefits packages—including pension, healthcare, training opportunities and more. 
• With a multinational team, strong ties to EU institutions, and flexible work options including working from abroad, we offer our employees an environment that supports both professional and personal development.

Let’s keep in touch

You can view our list of open positions here. We hope to see your application soon!

About Us

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as  The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer.

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