Backend Engineer II - Data Platform
Stockholm · London · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Stockholm · London
About the role
- The Backend Engineer II for the Data Platform will design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for data catalog, lineage, and publishing systems.
- This role involves developing batch and streaming pipelines to process metadata and platform events, ensuring the platform remains scalable and reliable.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for data catalog, lineage, and publishing systems.
- Develop and run batch and streaming pipelines to keep metadata current.
- Process platform events and audit logs to capture data changes.
- Turn lineage and metadata into data products for other teams.
- Own projects end-to-end from technical design through delivery and rollout.
- Participate in on-call rotations for critical services.
- Implement observability and quality checks.
- Use automation and AI tooling to reduce operational toil.
Requirements
- Solid experience building and running backend services and APIs in production with Java.
- Comfortable with SQL.
- Experience working with data pipelines or a cloud data warehouse.
- Working understanding of data engineering concepts such as orchestration, metadata management, data quality, governance, and lineage.
- Ability to break problems down into clear, shippable steps and reason through tradeoffs.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic platform environment.
Preferred qualifications
- Hands-on experience with batch or streaming frameworks like Beam, Flink, or Spark.
Workplace
- Role is based in Stockholm or London.
- Allows for flexibility to work from home.
Skills
- Java
- SQL
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Beam
- Flink
- Spark
