Senior Software Engineer

Create moments that matter. Decode the future.

At the Electrolux Group, a leading global appliance company, we strive every day to shape living for the better for our consumers, our people and our planet. We share ideas and collaborate so that together, we can develop solutions that deliver enjoyable and sustainable living.

Come join us as you are. We believe diverse perspectives make us stronger and more innovative. In our global community of people from 100+ countries, we listen to each other, actively contribute, and grow together.

Join us in our exciting quest to build the future home!

All about the role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Backend Engineer with proficiency in Kotlin, preferably combined with Ktor or a similar asynchronous backend framework. The candidate will become an integral part of our team working with sustainable consumer products and payments globally. You will be contributing to a large-scale, multi-regional commerce platform serving millions of consumers worldwide.

Furthermore, the role comes with end-to-end autonomy in application design, with a high degree of influence over architecture and implementation of the microservices being built, combined with full responsibility and ownership for their quality, scalability, deployment and lifecycle. The perfect candidate is a passionate developer who has worked with multi-regional backends where multiple platform installations run across multiple clusters, time zones, and datacenters worldwide.

What’s in it for you?

• A high degree of autonomy in developing new services.
• Freedom to design and shape service architecture.
• Being part of a dedicated team that values collaboration and strong engineering practices.
• Development of new capabilities on a modern, well-maintained platform with careful management of technical debt.
• Excellent benefits for future parental leave.
• A generous vacation allowance of 40 days per year.
• A flexible working environment with a well-situated office in central Stockholm
  
  

• Develop and maintain robust and scalable backend services primarily using Kotlin and Ktor.
• Engage in architectural discussions and contribute to the design of a multi-regional backend.
• Maintain and manage SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Integrate with search clusters such as OpenSearch.
• Work on our payment & product platform and ensure fault tolerance.
• Manage deployments with tools like GitHub, Gradle & CircleCI.
• Monitor built services directly in the cluster and through services such as Sentry and Datadog.
• Mentor junior engineers, guiding them on best practices.
  
  

• 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years of developing in Kotlin, with extensive understanding of modern and asynchronous backend frameworks.
• Worked with Kafka or a similar event streaming platform
• Fluent in Git, CI/CD, and build automation.
• Knowledge of how to deploy, ingress, monitor, and manage backend services in a Kubernetes cluster.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  
  

• Experience working with Ktor in a large-scale production environment is a major qualifier.
• Hands-on experience and understanding of payment platforms is advantageous.
• Familiarity with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform/Terragrunt.