Senior Platform Engineer

Toca Boca; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Stockholm office

Job summary

Toca Boca is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape our cloud infrastructure powering millions of players. Based in Stockholm, you’ll join Central Tech to own cloud strategy and develop scalable backend platform services that empower game teams worldwide.

You'll lead IaC and container orchestration with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, build robust observability with Datadog, and coach engineers to raise the technical bar across the organization. Fluency in English is expected.

Qualifications

• Proven experience running AWS at scale for mobile/backend services.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform and container orchestration.
• Strong TypeScript backend development experience.
• Experience with observability suites (Datadog).
• Ability to coach junior engineers and share knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead full lifecycle of Central Tech platform services.
• Build scalable backend platform services that power millions of users.
• Define monitoring, logging, and security practices for robustness.
• Collaborate with game teams to improve developer experience.

Skills

AWS at scale

TypeScript

Mentoring

Communication

Datadog

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Job description

Applications are considered on a rolling basis

Would you like to play a key part in the next evolution of Toca Boca's technology platform? With over 60 million monthly active users, a massive global footprint, and peaks of about 1,400 requests per second, as a Senior Platform Engineer, you will shape the cloud infrastructure that powers our entire play ecosystem.

At Toca Boca, we don’t lock you into endless, repetitive maintenance silos. Joining our newly established Central Tech platform team, you will enjoy broad, end-to-end ownership. Your mission will be to elevate our cloud strategy, build highly scalable backend platform services, and pave the way for a modern, efficient developer experience across all our game teams.

You will partner with game developers, acting as a force multiplier so they can focus on what they do best: building the best possible games for kids and families worldwide.

What you’ll be doing

Drive the full lifecycle of Central Tech platform services—from greenfield development to optimizing high-throughput backend services handling millions of active players.

Serve as an internal platform champion. You'll deeply understand the needs of our game teams, building the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that make their workflows seamless and efficient.

Lead the evolution of our cloud environment, promoting best-in-class workflows using Terraform, Docker, and orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS/Kubernetes).

Define and implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies (using tools like Datadog) alongside secure AWS practices to guarantee a resilient, top-tier platform.

Act as a natural knowledge sharer. You'll coach other developers in cloud infrastructure best practices, raising the technical bar for the entire organization.

Is This You?

Strong professional experience with AWS at scale, ideally powering non-web consumers like mobile apps, APIs, and high-concurrency backend services.

Deep hands-on experience in an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) environment (Terraform, etc.) and container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes/EKS).

Solid production-level experience with TypeScript for backend development.

A great understanding of databases, including both Relational and NoSQL database architectures (the larger the data volume, the better!).

Experience configuring and working with modern observability suites (such as Datadog).

A natural instinct for knowledge sharing, with a proven track record of coaching junior engineers and helping teams adopt new tools.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate open-ended, non-technical requirements into robust, elegant technical solutions.

This is us!

Toca Boca together with Sago Mini, Piknik and Lylli, make up Digital Games within Spin Master. We create games, digital toys, and everyday products that are filled with fun that kids from any corner of the world can instantly relate to. We celebrate the diversity and quirkiness of their world and give them the freedom to play in ways that only they can.

The Spin Master Mission and Vision is to make life more fun by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun!

Good to know!

This position is full time and based in our Stockholm office with a hybrid working model. We apply a 6-month probationary period. As we're an international company, with over 20 nationalities working here, and millions of users all over the world, you must be fluent in English.

Toca Boca develops digital games that capture the power of play and that are filled with fun and silliness that kids around the world can instantly relate to. Since our first product launch in 2011, we have released 46 apps that have been downloaded more than 444 million times the world over, making us the No. 1 mobile-first kids brand in the App Store. Our products focus on sparking kids' creativity and imagination, creating opportunities for open-ended play.

With offices in Stockholm and San Francisco, Toca Boca is owned by Spin Master Corp., a global children's entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties.

What we look for

Amazing ideas come from anywhere. We believe transparency, honesty and constructive communication are crucial for making great things.

Open. Curious. Creative. Leaving room for spontaneity is important to us for creating a fun and playful work environment.

Standards of Quality

Good enough is never good enough. We strive to innovate and evolve our craft, and we'd never get there without working together toward our visions.

Passion

We all share in the excitement of making great things together. It's what drives us to do the things we do.

Responsibility

We take ownership and pride in everything we do. From gender to accessibility - we are dedicated to inclusivity.