Backend Developer

About us

We operate a subscription e-commerce site selling coffee, tea and brewing gear, shipped from our own warehouse.

About the role

Ahmed Online has an opening for a Backend Developer. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. Remote position. Most of the team is in Linköping, but nobody is required to come in. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Day to day

• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans

What you bring

• 2+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Preferred qualifications

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB

Why work with us

• Occupational pension
• Five weeks of annual leave
• Employee stock options
• Lunch benefit
• Training budget
• Wellness allowance

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Ahmed Online AB.