Senior Cloud & Backend Architect (.NET/Azure)

Location: Stockholm, Sweden; onsite and office-first, with flexibility to work from home when appropriate. Candidates must be based in Stockholm or within commuting distance of the Östersund studio. Relocation is not offered.

Company

Digital product partner creating apps and digital products for major brands across multiple European and US studios, with products used by millions of people.

What you will do

• Design and evolve scalable backend and cloud architectures primarily with C#/.NET and Microsoft Azure.
• Design highly available, resilient, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resistant infrastructure, including multi-region solutions.
• Make architectural decisions across services, APIs, databases, networking, messaging, caching, storage, identity, and security.
• Define infrastructure-as-code, deployment, observability, monitoring, and operational-readiness approaches.
• Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and scaling challenges, and balance performance, complexity, cost, maintainability, and time to market.
• Collaborate with developers, product teams, partners, and clients; mentor engineers and lead technical discussions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, software architecture, or a combination of these.
• Deep professional experience with C#/.NET and Microsoft Azure.
• Experience designing and owning architecture for complex, business-critical backend systems.
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience designing systems for horizontal scaling, high availability, resilience, and fault tolerance.
• Experience designing or operating multi-region cloud architectures and understanding their trade-offs.
• Experience with databases, APIs, networking, messaging, caching, identity, security, cloud services, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud operations.
• Ability to move between strategic architecture discussions and hands-on technical problem-solving, and communicate complex decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Interest in mentoring engineers and building dependable, maintainable, and easy-to-operate systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-first work environment in a central Stockholm office, with home working flexibility and adaptable hours.
• Weekly demos, lunch-and-learns, conceptathons, company conferences, and opportunities for continued learning.
• Collaboration across engineering and cloud communities and studios.
• Wellness grant, parental-leave top-up, occupational pension, and additional benefits.

Hiring process

• First interview.
• Case assignment and technical interview.
• Final meeting.