Backend Developer

Storytel is one of the world’s leading audiobook and ebook streaming services. We offer unlimited listening to consumers in 20+ markets, with several new markets launching in the coming year. Our vision is to make the world a more empathetic place with great stories to be shared and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Storytel, a Swedish company founded in 2005, is both a digital platform provider as well as a comprehensive publishing group. We are now seeking for a talented and passionate developers to join us.

Storytel offers you the opportunity to dive into our fast growing company that embraces the latest technologies on the market.



About the role:

As a developer at Storytel you will work with experienced colleagues across a wide field of technologies. Our team builds and maintains the back office and studio tools that bring so many great stories to our platform. We host our services in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform using a variety of languages including Java, C#, and Go. Strong believers in trust and freedom - we have established a culture to enable experimentation and learning.

Where?

Our teams are distributed geographically between Umeå, Stockholm, Karlstad, Lund and Copenhagen.

Required skills:

- Experience coding HTTP services in typed languages - Java, C#, Go, etc.
- Experience writing appropriate and useful Unit Tests
- Ability to write understandable, secure and maintainable code
- Relational Database schema design and querying - MySQL, Postgres, etc.
- Quick to track down bugs and implement fixes in complex systems


These are some of the fantastic areas that we work with and it's a plus if you have experience in some of them. If you don't, we're happy to help you develop within them.

- Git
- Shell scripting
- REST
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Service-based architectures
- Messaging frameworks - Pubsub, Kafka or similar
- No-SQL databases - Google Datastore, MongoDB or similar
- Unix/Linux - Mac OS, Ubuntu or similar
- Cloud experience - Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS or similar
- Continuous Integration


What we offer you:

- To work with experienced developers in an open and friendly environment
- Your own yearly budget for knowledge increasing activities
- A knowledge and creativity boosting environment
- Limitless audio and ebooks from our own service
- To be part of an international team of developers
- To work with some of the newest technologies
- An environment to geek out about books, games, board-games and more


If you feel like Storytel is the place where you could thrive let us know and we will contact you as soon as possible. If you have some code or contributions attached to your GitHub account, please link to that in your application.