Senior Backend Engineer - Scale & Security Platform

SCRL; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership

Global user base

Team collaboration

Vacation 30 days

Wellness allowance

Pension

Team retreats

Job summary

SCRL, a small international team based in central Stockholm, is building the backend infrastructure to support accounts, subscriptions, synchronization, APIs, and cross-platform experiences at scale.

Senior Backend Engineer will own the backend powering SCRL across iOS, Android and our upcoming web platform, guiding architecture with the CTO and Head of Data and delivering features with the frontend team.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience building and operating backend systems in production.
• Strong foundations in TypeScript and PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP.
• Experience building systems that have scaled in terms of users, traffic, or complexity.
• Comfortable being a senior voice in discussions around architecture, tradeoffs, and long-term platform decisions.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining the APIs and services that deliver content to millions of users
• Designing systems that scale as we grow, without scaling our costs at the same rate
• Owning our PostgreSQL database and how we store and serve content
• Building scalable and cost-efficient systems for storing and delivering images and creative assets using AWS and S3
• Making sure premium status stays in sync across iOS, Android, and web
• Implementing proper security and access control, and making sure we stay GDPR compliant as we start storing user generated content in the cloud

Skills

Backend systems

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

System design

Architecture leadership

Security & GDPR

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

SCRL, a small international team based in central Stockholm, is building the backend infrastructure to support accounts, subscriptions, synchronization, APIs, and cross-platform experiences at scale.

Senior Backend Engineer will own the backend powering SCRL across iOS, Android and our upcoming web platform, guiding architecture with the CTO and Head of Data and delivering features with the frontend team.