About the role

Are you a backend engineer curious about the world of data? Or perhaps you're a data engineer eager to broaden your skills in backend development? At Acast, we're seeking talented individuals who are passionate about both backend engineering and data to join our team.

We are currently hiring for two of our product teams working with creating the best Ad Marketplace in podcasting. You will work in an autonomous, purpose driven team and take an important role in shipping new features while continuously increasing efficiency, stability and scalability of the systems. 

In your day to day work, you will work within a cross functional team, on extending and improving our data handling of millions of daily listeners.

You will be working in a multi-disciplinary environment with agile principles. We run our infrastructure and systems on AWS. The systems are running on Node.js and written in Typescript. Tools you will work with are for example: AWS ECS, Lambda, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Athena, ElastiCache and Airflow.

Who you are

· Experienced senior backend engineer with a strong interest for data, or data engineer with an interest in backend development

· Proficiency in Node.js and Typescript, or a willingness to learn

· Familiarity with AWS services and infrastructure

· Experienced in operating and maintaining datasets and infrastructure

· Possess a pragmatic mindset, capable of making trade-offs to optimize efficiency and prioritize shipping

Where you will be

· Most of our teams are hybrids with some members co-located in offices and some working remotely. With a remote first way of working we want you to feel productive regardless of work location!

· Where? For this role, it can be within Sweden. Either fully remotely or in the office in Stockholm.