Software Engineer (Kotlin, Java, Azure/ AWS)

Job highlights

• preferably combined with
• We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Backend Engineer with proficiency in
• . 4+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Experience working with
• . Hands-on experience and understanding of

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Backend Engineer with proficiency in Kotlin , preferably combined with Ktor or a similar asynchronous backend framework. The candidate will become an integral part of our team working with sustainable consumer products and payments globally. You will be contributing to a large-scale, multi-regional commerce platform serving millions of consumers worldwide.

Furthermore, the role comes with end-to-end autonomy in application design, with a high degree of influence over architecture and implementation of the microservices being built, combined with full responsibility and ownership for their quality, scalability, deployment and lifecycle. The perfect candidate is a passionate developer who has worked with multi-regional backends where multiple platform installations run across multiple clusters, time zones, and datacenters worldwide.

What s in it for you?

• A high degree of autonomy in developing new services.
• Freedom to design and shape service architecture.
• Being part of a dedicated team that values collaboration and strong engineering practices.
• Development of new capabilities on a modern, well-maintained platform with careful management of technical debt.
• Excellent benefits for future parental leave.
• A generous vacation allowance of 40 days per year.
• A flexible working environment with a well-situated office in central Stockholm

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust and scalable backend services primarily using Kotlin and Ktor .
• Engage in architectural discussions and contribute to the design of a multi-regional backend.
• Maintain and manage SQL and NoSQL databases .
• Integrate with search clusters such as OpenSearch .
• Work on our payment & product platform and ensure fault tolerance.
• Manage deployments with tools like Github , Gradle & CircleCI .
• Monitor built services directly in cluster and through services such as Sentry and Datadog .
• Mentor junior engineers, guiding them on best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years of developing in Kotlin , with extensive understanding of modern and asynchronous backend frameworks .
• Worked with Kafka or a similar event streaming platform
• Fluent in Git , CI/CD, and build automation .
• Knowledge of how to deploy, ingress, monitor, and manage backend services in a Kubernetes cluster .
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Ktor in a large-scale production environment is a major qualifier.
• Hands-on experience and understanding of payment platforms is advantageous.
• Familiarity with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform / Terragrunt .