Backend Engineer - Remote

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Linköping, Östergötland County and two nearshore delivery centres. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

The position

Corvane Cloud has an opening for a Backend Engineer - Remote. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. The Platform team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Remote position. Most of the team is in Linköping, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Responsibilities

• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Preferred

• Terraform or Pulumi.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

SEK 57,000-SEK 75,000/month

Pay and benefits

• Private health insurance.
• Occupational pension.
• Five weeks of annual leave.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Within 30 days.

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