Backend Engineer (Java/Scala/Go)

Quick Facts

• Domain: Content Catalog

• Focus: Backend services, APIs, reliability, and maintainability

• Work style: Remote within Sweden

• Project ownership: From discovery through implementation and handover

Description

You’ll join a backend engineering team responsible for systems that manage content and make it available. You’ll improve backend services, APIs, and data flows—simplifying architecture and increasing reliability—while aligning technical decisions with product outcomes through collaboration across product and engineering. Your initial assignment is agreed based on business priorities and your experience.

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers and partners to clarify user needs, requirements, scope, responsibilities, and an achievable delivery plan.

• Communicate technical approaches, tradeoffs, progress, and risks clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Explore existing backend services, APIs, and data flows; design, implement, and test improvements that meet product needs.

• Coordinate migrations, integrations, or service improvements across teams while managing dependencies and preserving continuity for users.

• Evaluate changes through testing, monitoring, and production feedback; share documentation and knowledge to support ongoing ownership.

Requirements

• Solid experience building and operating backend services and APIs in production at scale.

• Proficiency in a backend language such as Java, Scala, Go, or similar.

• Understanding of API design, schema evolution, and backward compatibility.

• Comfort modeling data for auditability, versioning, and efficient querying.

• Experience with data pipelines and awareness of tradeoffs between real-time and batch processing.

• Ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and ramp up quickly in new domains.

• Consideration of downstream impact on policy logic, enforcement decisions, and regulatory reporting.

• Experience in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments (or strong interest in developing it).

• Strong cross-team collaboration and clear communication of technical decisions.

• Comfort with ambiguity and identifying the most impactful work.

Benefits

• Support with domain knowledge and technical context as you take responsibility for a defined project.

• Collaboration with engineering teams, product managers, and other partners across the company.