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Senior Backend Engineer | Routing Team

Instabee Group AB ยท Stockholm, Stockholms lรคn, Sverige

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About The Role

The challenge

Every day, thousands of parcels need to find the fastest, cheapest, most accurate route to someone's door โ€” across Sweden and beyond. That's a Traveling Salesman Problem at massive scale, and it's what the Routing Team solves, live, in production.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, your code doesn't sit in a backlog. It ships, and the next day it's already changing distribution costs, delivery accuracy, and the experience of thousands of customers.

The team

You'll join a small, senior, highly collaborative squad: three backend developers, one frontend developer, two algorithm engineers, one ML engineer, an Engineering Manager, a Product Manager, and a Staff Engineer. Low cross-team dependencies mean you can actually drive projects from idea to production โ€” fast.

Tech stack

๐Ÿน Backend

Golang (primary), with legacy Java and Node.js

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Frontend

React + Next.js

๐Ÿ—„๏ธ Data

PostgreSQL, MongoDB

โ˜๏ธ Infra

GCP, Kubernetes (Helm), Terraform

๐Ÿ” CI/CD & Observability

GitHub Actions, Grafana

  • What you'll own
  • Design, build, and ship backend features end-to-end โ€” including proposing the projects worth building
  • Modernize legacy services (Java/Node) into scalable Go-based architecture
  • Set the bar for clean, maintainable, well-documented code
  • Partner with Product to turn technical solutions into KPI impact
  • Lead incident response and turn root causes into long-term fixes
  • Mentor engineers and help shape a strong technical culture
  • What we're looking for
  • Solid, hands-on experience with Go (or another strongly-typed language) in production
  • A track record of designing and scaling distributed systems/APIs in the cloud โ€” GCP or AWS

Comfortable with Kubernetes/Helm, Terraform, and SQL

  • You raise problems before they become incidents, and you help fix them
  • You make sound decisions under ambiguity, and you enjoy giving/getting feedback
  • You care where your code actually lands โ€” in a truck, on a route, at someone's door
  • Bonus: you've worked across legacy stacks and enjoy bringing old systems up to modern standards.
  • Why this role
  • Real-world impact, fast. Your work reaches thousands of people daily โ€” not after a year of roadmap, but this quarter.
  • See it in action. Visit our sorting terminals, ride along with a delivery driver, or shadow ops for a day โ€” build with real context, not assumptions.
  • Build, don't just maintain. Regular Hack Days let you take an idea from proof-of-concept to production.
  • Tools that keep up with you. Paid licenses for IDEs and AI coding agents.
  • Grow with modern tech, without being cut off from where it came from โ€” you'll touch legacy systems too, and get to fix them properly.

Perks

๐Ÿข Newly renovated office with a 360ยฐ view over Stockholm

๐Ÿถ Dog-friendly, with a floor for your furry coworker

๐Ÿ“ Ping pong, shuffleboard, foosball, karaoke room

โฐ Flexible hybrid hours

๐Ÿ‘ถ 6 months of parental pay top-up

๐ŸŽ‚ A day off on your birthday

We're committed to building an inclusive team where different perspectives are valued and everyone has room to grow.

This role requires a background check via Svensk Bakgrundsanalys, which includes a review of public criminal records. The results are handled confidentially as part of our standard recruitment process in Sweden.

Ready to make thousands of routes a little smarter every day? Apply below โ€” we'd love to hear from you.

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