Technical Lead — Real-Time Data & Scalable Backend

Flightradar24; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Flightradar24 is seeking an experienced engineer to own and evolve its B2B product engineering, delivering scalable backend services and live data APIs. You will work across data platforms, databases, and frontend layers to transform aircraft telemetry into valuable customer products.

The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and production operations, requiring hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and large-scale data processing.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience building and operating production software at scale.
• Comfort across modern technology stack from data platforms to backend services and frontend apps.
• Ability to understand complex systems where documentation may be limited or evolving.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering behind Flightradar24's entire B2B product portfolio.
• Design and build scalable backend services powering live data feeds, APIs, and exports.
• Work across the full stack from data lakehouse to frontend applications.
• Transform raw aircraft telemetry into valuable customer products.
• Improve scalability, reliability, observability, and production operations.
• Collaborate with platform, data, web, and infrastructure teams to integrate with the Flightradar24 ecosystem.

Skills

Fullstack systems

Production software

Reliability & observability

Data platforms

Tools

AWS

S3

Glue/Spark

Airflow/MWAA

Kafka

Athena

Job description

Flightradar24 is seeking an experienced engineer to own and evolve its B2B product engineering, delivering scalable backend services and live data APIs. You will work across data platforms, databases, and frontend layers to transform aircraft telemetry into valuable customer products.

The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and production operations, requiring hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and large-scale data processing.