Scale-Driven Backend Engineer — Social Systems (Go/K8s/GCP)

Embark Studios; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Generous profit-sharing program

Job summary

A creative gaming company in Sweden is seeking a backend developer who will work on backend services to power player-facing features and online systems. Candidates should have strong programming skills, particularly in Go, and experience with distributed systems and SQL. The role involves designing and maintaining social and account backend services in a collaborative environment with multiple teams. Competitive salary and profit-sharing program offered.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 when needed.

Skills

Strong programming skills with Go

Professional experience with SQL

Experience with distributed systems

Experience with Kubernetes

Professional English communication skills

Tools

Google Spanner

Redis

GCP

Bazel

Job description

A creative gaming company in Sweden is seeking a backend developer who will work on backend services to power player-facing features and online systems. Candidates should have strong programming skills, particularly in Go, and experience with distributed systems and SQL. The role involves designing and maintaining social and account backend services in a collaborative environment with multiple teams. Competitive salary and profit-sharing program offered.