Backend Engineer

Embark; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 642,201 - 825,687; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous profit-sharing program

Job summary

A gaming technology company in Sweden is seeking a skilled backend developer to join a small team focused on social and account backend services. You will design and maintain systems that enable player interaction features, utilizing technologies such as Go, SQL, and Kubernetes. Ideal candidates have experience with distributed systems and communication platforms. This role promises competitive salary and an opportunity to work on innovative projects in a creative work environment.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills and experience with Go.
• Understanding of SQL based systems, especially Spanner.
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud environments.
• Ability to take ownership and drive work forward.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain social and account backend services.
• Work with distributed systems in production.
• Collaborate with backend, game server, and infrastructure teams.
• Improve tooling, workflows, and architecture.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Go

Experience with SQL based systems

Experience with distributed systems

Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments

Professional English communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Google Spanner

Redis

GCP

Bazel

Job description

At Embark, you will join a small team working on backend services that power player-facing features and online systems at scale. In this role, you will work with social and account related backend systems, enabling features such as voice chat, messaging, parties, and player connectivity. These systems handle identity, communication, and social interaction between players across our games.

The challenges you will solve are similar to those found in large-scale communication and identity platforms, but applied to games.

You will work in distributed systems running in production. Most of your time will be spent in a small number of core services, while understanding how they connect to the larger system.

Because the team is small, you are expected to take responsibility, ask questions and identify what needs to be done.

Our stack includes Go, C++, SQL using Google Spanner, Redis, GCP, Kubernetes, and Bazel.

Example of responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain social and account backend services
• Work with distributed systems in production
• Collaborate with backend, game server, and infrastructure teams to build reliable online systems
• Improve tooling, workflows, and architecture when needed

It would be awesome if you have

• Strong programming skills and professional experience with Go
• Experience working with SQL based systems; Spanner is a strong plus
• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments, preferably GCP
• The ability to take ownership and drive work forward
• A curious mindset and comfort working in complex systems
• Professional English communication skills

Bonus

• Experience building or operating authentication systems using OpenID or similar standards
• Experience with C++

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, a generous profit‑sharing program, and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome people from all backgrounds and are looking forward to reading more about you (in English)!