21 days ago
Stockholm, SwedenSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the real-time and batch data platform, including Go-based processing services and GCP data pipelines.
- Develop, operate, and version customer-facing backend APIs with attention to performance, reliability, scalability, and backwards compatibility.
- Manage multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, security, observability, and cloud cost visibility across global regions.
- Participate in a shared production on-call rotation and address failure modes, technical debt, and architectural weaknesses.
- Define engineering standards for code quality, testing, code review, CI/CD, documentation, and technical design.
- Lead technical discussions, guide team priorities, and mentor two junior engineers through pairing and code reviews.
Requirements
- Typically 6+ years of professional experience as a software or data engineer, including ownership of production systems end to end.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in modular design, testing strategies, API design, and distributed-systems trade-offs.
- Experience building and operating backend services in Go, Java, Kotlin, Rust, or a similar compiled or typed language.
- Hands-on experience with a modern data stack, ideally BigQuery, Airflow, and dbt or close equivalents.
- Experience with Terraform and in-depth working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider.
- Familiarity with both real-time or streaming and batch data-processing patterns and their integration challenges.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and improving team engineering quality.
- Professional Go experience is preferred, along with multi-cloud and multi-region infrastructure experience.
- Experience with networking, identity, data residency, lambda or kappa architectures, Kafka or Pub/Sub, high-throughput API gateways, observability tooling, or cloud cost optimization is beneficial.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.
- Candidates must have the right to work in Sweden and submit their application in English.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Relocation and work permit sponsorship are not available.
- Monthly salary is 60 000–72 000 SEK.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache KafkaAWSAzuredbtGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKotlinRustTerraform
About Sinch AB
Sinch builds a cloud communications platform (CPaaS) that provides APIs and services for SMS/RCS, voice, and email so businesses can automate customer messaging, alerts, and support. It sells usage-based APIs and SaaS tools to enterprises, software platforms, and SMBs. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sinch is a public company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and operates globally across telecom networks and digital channels.