Backend engineer - Java

We are seeking a collaborative and curious Engineer to help drive and develop our VCS infrastructure forward.

Our Version Control System (VCS) is the heartbeat of the developer experience. Our massive growth serving 1 Billion customers has led to us closing in on operational limits and we hence need to improve our stack and automate certain workflows in order to continue providing our engineering teams with flawless builds, integrated insights, fast local iteration time and evolve our repo structure for speed and safety. This role will be part of a team collaboratively creating and owning our VCS infrastructure which aims to provide our developers with a streamlined, simple to use and safe build experience at scale..

The role is located in the Platform Developer Experience (PDX) tribe within the Platform Mission. The PDX Studio oversees and owns the infrastructure that cuts across all engineering disciplines.

What you'll do

Execute on the clients future VCS infrastructure strategy that is able to serve 3000+ engineers doing 100’s of thousands of builds daily and beyond

Support with Operational tasks keeping our systems healthy and uptodate

Develop backend systems to enable automate and enable the engineers to develop software more efficiently

Drive the automation and improvements of our chosen VCS across our current technical stacks.

Collaborate with Infrastructure teams across the company to discover what a best in class VCS infrastructure means.

Who you are

You are an experienced engineering familiar with Linux and Networking fundamentals

You are an experienced Software Engineer with Java

You have experience deploying to and implementing solutions in GCP or AWS.

You believe in iteration and know that finding the right solution is more important than the first.

You like to focus on standardization and automation; always looking for ways to improve the developer experience

You have 6+ years of experience in building and implementing large-scale systems across various projects and teams

You have familiarity with and enthusiasm for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

Skills

Java Backend development experience

Linux system experience

AI experience is a must - we will be working on AI tooling as well

HTTP / networking

Google Cloud (preferred) / AWS Kubernetes

Github (Administration / Operations) Gitlab would be advantageous (if they don’t have Github)

Git expert

Data experience - would be helpful

Start: 2026-05-05

End Date: 2026-12-31

Workplace: Remote from Sweden. Candidates appyling from outside of Sweden will not be reviewed.