Back-end developer / Platform lead

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

How do you get thousands of employees among some of the largest companies in the Nordics to actually enjoy answering employee engagement surveys? By focusing on a great user experience, challenging conventions and building a service from the employees' perspective - using all the data to more than just a diagnosis - driving change! If you like the idea of making a difference in people’s work-lives and turning a sleepy industry on its head while doing so, then keep reading!


We are refreshing our backend and have an opportunity to put in place a whole new architecture for our service. This means we are looking for a skilled developer and architect that can the effort of putting in place a new platform, and that we can build a backend team around going forward.

We are moving to a Java/Scala stack and believe you write excellent Java/Scala code and have experience in agile Java frameworks like Spring Boot, Play! or Dropwizard, able to whip up secure and stable REST-based APIs without breaking a sweat. You have no problems setting up a smooth test & deployment chain with e.g. Jenkins/Maven or similar, and preferably also have experience with cache/data/compute/big-data/queue solutions and framework (like Cassandra, Redis, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc), and can also architect our data processing backend.

To take on this responsibilities we believe you know how to grow a SaaS solution and things like scaling, load balancing, security, databases, continous integration/translation, automated testing and enterprise standards like SAML, OAuth etc. is stuff you read about in your spare time out of interest. You're also excited about being able to build a really awesome team that will be able to create a service handling real-time traffic from millions of users answering questions, and continously generate useful insights from all the data we are amassing.

We offer the unique opportunity to put in place a new architecture using your choice of cutting-edge technologies, in a startup with a lot of traction in the market and with large international companies as customers. You'll also be able to influence our tech stack and developer recruitment going forward, as well as be vital to our product development as we build new service offers around our data.

If you're the star we're looking for, we're open to sharing our success and can offer stock options as part of our compensation package.

Apply by showing your interest here, or apply through this link.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free lunch
Free lunch

Enjoy a free catered lunch with your colleagues, every day.

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Working at
&frankly

People spend most of their waking hours at work. And yet, our wellbeing there receives very little attention. This is something we want to change with &frankly, and we’re bit naïve in our belief that it shouldn’t be so damn hard. &frankly is a cloud based service that help make your workplace better. We give managers and employees an innovative tool to continuously check the pulse of the employees and trigger the organisation in a positive direction.  Join us in making a difference People spend most of their waking hours at work. And yet, our wellbeing there receives very little attention. This is something we want to change with &frankly, and we’re a bit naive in our belief that it shouldn’t be so damn hard. We’re not big, but with commitment, creativity, curiosity and guts, you get quite far.Ambitious but humbleWe're a small but quickly growing team that are passionate about making a change. We value creativity and getting things done over formal titles and fancy business cards. We work collaboratively and hard, with a flat, open and honest culture - and we know that in order to be creative we have to have fun doing it! And have a nice place to work. And satisfy the foodies.We meet with large international companies one day and small creative agencies the next, which we mean need innovative creators, tech nerds, driven sales reps as well as seasoned HR experts on our team; people that we believe may come from all over the world and join us in Stockholm to realize our vision.What can you expect?We are a young company that not too long ago tried our wings with the first (minimal) version of our product - and got caught up in a stamp of customers that impatiently had been waiting for something new. This means if you're looking for an org chart and clear processes we might not be the right place for you. But if you're a doer, got ideas and is keen on being part of the building a company from an early stage you can't find a better place to be.An exciting journeyBe part of the startup journey in a company that's actually earning revenue already, and take part in the experience of how to build a company. (Joining early also means you can claim a really cool role now before anyone else takes it :)Room for creativityWhat you do will not be set in stone, nor is how we work - we want people who dare to try new things; we A/B test everything from sales & marketing methods, customer engagement and try out the new tech in order to find out what works best and apply it where it adds most value. If you've got ideas that make sense, we will support you in realizing them.Bootstrapping is overWe're an early stage startup but we're no longer working out of café or our friends' spare room. We've got a nice office at a great location, do Friday breakfasts, go out to eat at funky new restaurants and work out together. We haven't got a ping-pong table yet, nor the possibility to exit the office through a slip-and-slide, but I guess that's just a matter of time.

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