Senior Backend Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Building backend services for high-volume real-time aircraft telemetry
• Designing and improving data ingestion, streaming, and event processing (batch and real-time)
• Refactoring and enhancing existing services, pipelines, and infrastructure
• Implementing robust data collection, transformation, and storage solutions
• Operating and improving cloud-based platforms (primarily AWS)
• Improving observability, reliability, and operational tooling for production systems
• Contributing to best practices around CI/CD, testing, code quality, and documentation
• Collaborating with software engineers, data engineers, and analysts to deliver reliable data products

Requirements

• Strong experience with software development in C++, Python, Go, Rust, (or similar)
• Strong experience designing and operating production backend systems
• Experience with data engineering architectures for ingestion and transformation
• Experience working with cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS
• Solid understanding of databases
• Experience with event-driven or streaming architectures (Kafka or similar)
• Strong understanding of reliability, observability, and production operations
• Has several years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems
• Is self-driven and comfortable making technical decisions independently
• Can quickly understand and work within an existing codebase and architecture
• Values clean code, testing, automation, and pragmatic engineering practices
• Communicates clearly and professionally in English

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Kafka
• Python
• Rust
• Go

Benefits

• Opportunity to impact a service with millions of end users from all around the world
• Contribute to the value which Flightradar24 creates both for B2C and B2B but also for humanity.
• Modern office in the heart of beautiful downtown Stockholm, Sweden
• Being part of a diverse team
• Flexible and social work environment with free beverages, fruit, and snacks