Cloud Developer – Building high-performance DevEx tools in Go/Golang

Playground Tech; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Playground Tech in Stockholm is seeking a Cloud Developer to build fast, reliable internal services, CLI tools, and developer platforms in Go. You’ll accelerate client engineering teams by delivering scalable tooling and CI/CD pipelines, while shaping architecture that boosts velocity and safety.

You’ll work hybrid in Stockholm, join a team that loves Go, concurrency, and clean code, with emphasis on developer experience and AI tooling integration to empower builders across projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering or backend/cloud roles.
• Go (Golang) as primary language with strong concurrency knowledge.
• Fluent Swedish and English for client engagements.
• Experience with IaC and cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience or interest in AI tooling and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building fast, concurrent internal services and CLI tools.
• Developing CI/CD pipelines and paved roads for safe shipping.
• Elevating team velocity through architecture and tooling.
• Integrating AI tooling and SDKs into Go apps and workflows.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Backend engineering

Cloud engineering

AI tooling

Swedish & English fluent

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Playground Tech

Stockholm

Hybrid

Cloud Developer – Building high-performance DevEx tools in Go/Golang

The world of cloud is changing. Fast. And we want you, who thrive on the bleeding edge and build cleanly in Go, to transform the Cloud space with us!

We’re growing our team with a low-ego, collaborative, and backend-focused Cloud Developer who sees Golang as their home turf and Developer Experience (DevEx) as their main product. You are the force multiplier for client engineering teams: the connective tissue that builds internal tooling, CLI tools, microservices, and paved roads that allow everyone else to ship faster, safer, and with true engineering discipline, especially in an AI-accelerated dev world.

If you love the simplicity, concurrency, and raw speed of Go, and get a kick out of building tools that other developers actually enjoy using, this is your Playground.

At heart, this is a developer-productivity role. On assignment, you are the one who elevates a client's entire engineering engine:

What this role is (and is not)

What This Role Is

• Primary Go/Golang Development: Designing and building fast, concurrent, and reliable internal services, CLI tools, libraries, and developer platforms
• Smoothing the path to production: Developing CI/CD, build pipelines, and paved roads that make shipping code fast, safe, and repeatable
• Elevating team velocity: Doing the architectural and connective work that acts as a force multiplier for whole engineering orgs
• Bringing discipline to AI workflow: Creating the harnesses, guardrails, and integrations that let teams leverage AI without introducing chaos

What This Role Is Not

• Not a "vanilla" feature dev: You won't be stuck in standard CRUD/backlog feature loops. Your product is the developer platform itself
• Not a frontend or pure Data/ML role: You consume and integrate AI services and cloud primitives
• You don't train ML models or build data pipelines as your core craft

Who are you?

Your temperament matters as much as your code. You’re a curious, low-ego builder who takes pride in system craftsmanship, writes clean and maintainable Go code, and communicates clearly.

Skills & Background

• Go (Golang) is your primary language and home turf: You know its concurrency patterns, standard library, and ecosystem inside out.
• 5+ years in software engineering / backend / cloud engineering, with a genuine passion for building for builders
• Comfort or depth in at least one secondary modern language (e.g., Python, C#, Java, or TypeScript)
• Cloud & IaC experience: Solid foundation in AWS, Azure, or GCP, combined with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform preferred)
• Demonstrable engagement with AI tooling: Whether it’s building CLI wrappers around LLMs, using AI coding assistants in your workflow, or integrating AI SDKs into Go apps
• Fluency in Swedish and English (as client engagements are primarily conducted in Swedish)

Bonus: Kubernetes experience (managed or self-managed).

Note: no *ss-hats wanted or needed.

Important Notes

• Playground Group does not provide visa sponsorship or relocation support
• Applicants must already have a permanent and independent right to work in Sweden
• As part of the final stage of the recruitment process, a background check conducted by a third party will be carried out.

About Playground Group

At Playground Group, we start, own, and grow companies — and the people who lead them. We’re a corporate group with a sharp focus on technology and leadership, built around specialized companies that together form a uniquely strong offering.

Founded in 2008

Co-workers 80+

Turnover +300M