Senior Backend Engineer with cloud experience

Anyfin AB; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 613,800 - 837,000; Full time

Job summary

Anyfin AB in Stockholm is seeking an experienced Backend Developer to build and optimize financial backend systems using Node.js and SQL. You will work primarily in the backend, contributing to cloud infrastructure and ensuring system scalability and reliability.

The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of professional experience, strong skills in backend development and cloud platforms like GCP. This role offers a collaborative and ambitious team environment focused on building and improving products.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Experience with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong background in system design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize financial backend systems using Node.js and SQL.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure and system architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product direction.

Skills

Node.js

SQL (Postgres)

GCP

System design

React

Job description

What you’ll do

• Building, optimizing and scaling robust financial backend systems using Node.js and SQL (Postgres)
• Working primarily in the backend while contributing to our cloud infrastructure, helping design and operate systems across networking, servers and database architectures to support scalable and reliable services.
• Contributing to system architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability of financial systems.
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to shape both product direction and business strategy.
• Sharing backend expertise with the team while promoting best practices, along with strong cloud and infrastructure competence.

Our main stack is TypeScript, Node.js, React, React Native running on Google Cloud Platform.

You’ll thrive here if you…

• Have solid experience building backend systems with Node.js and working with cloud platforms such as GCP.
• Care about craftsmanship, performance, and reliability in the systems you build.
• Take responsibility naturally and don’t wait to be told what to do.
• Enjoy messy problems and figuring things out as you go.
• Like being in an ambitious and collaborative team.
• Want to build and improve products, not just maintain.

Technical skillset

• Strong background in backend development with Node.js and SQL databases (preferably Postgres).
• Experience in designing, deploying and monitoring solutions on major cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
• At least 5 years of professional experience, ideally in high-stakes environments like finance.
• Passionate about solving complex backend problems with clean, pragmatic solutions.
• Solid understanding of system design and architecture.
• Bonus if you’ve worked with React, Python, Go, GraphQL, Kubernetes or DevOps with Github Actions.

A few practical notes

• Stockholm based.EU work authorization required.