Senior Platform CTO & Hands-On Tech Leader - Stockholm

Hacksaw Studios AB; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Hacksaw Studios in Stockholm is seeking a highly experienced CTO / Lead Developer to lead the platform team and own the remote gaming server platform. This senior hands-on leadership role focuses on architecture, reliability, and security for a high-volume, regulated gaming environment.

You will drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and maintain core transactional systems while collaborating with DevOps, Sysadmin, support, and senior management to ensure scalable, secure delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with C# and .NET in backend systems.
• Strong SQL skills with data modelling and performance focus.
• Experience designing and operating high-volume, transactional platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform team, driving architecture, scale, performance and security.
• Write, review, and deliver high-quality C# code and maintainable systems.
• Mentor developers and report progress, risks, and decisions to management.
• Collaborate across DevOps, Sysadmin, support and product teams.
• Promote engineering practices like unit testing and code reviews.

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Strong communication

Mentoring

Code reviews

Stakeholder communication

Tools

.NET

C#

SQL

Redis

APIs

Job description

Hacksaw Studios in Stockholm is seeking a highly experienced CTO / Lead Developer to lead the platform team and own the remote gaming server platform. This senior hands-on leadership role focuses on architecture, reliability, and security for a high-volume, regulated gaming environment.

You will drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and maintain core transactional systems while collaborating with DevOps, Sysadmin, support, and senior management to ensure scalable, secure delivery.