Backend Developer who knows Kafka is more than an author

Are you a backend developer who enjoys turning messy systems into something clean and reliable? Do you believe knowledge grows when it’s shared, not guarded? And would you like your code to help thousands of consumers make better shopping decisions every day? Then you might be our next Backend Developer in Malmö.

At Prisjakt, we bring clarity to the chaos of e-commerce. From our Malmö office, you’ll build services that automate content creation and validate offer data. In other words, your code will directly improve data quality and help make online shopping a little smarter.

What you’ll be doing

• Build and maintain Scala-based services that automate content creation and validate large amounts of offer data
• Develop backend-heavy solutions with some frontend parts used by our operations team
• Work in a microservice architecture powered by Kafka and running on Kubernetes
• Collaborate closely with developers, product and operations to improve data quality in smart, scalable ways
• Share knowledge, coach teammates and raise the bar for how we build things
• This isn’t about shipping code and disappearing. You’ll be part of shaping how we solve problems together.
  
  

Who you are

You’re experienced enough to feel confident in your craft and humble enough to know great solutions are built in dialogue. You prefer multiplayer mode over solo speedruns and you’re comfortable discussing trade-offs, architecture and design decisions.

To thrive here, you:

• Are skilled in Scala (or strong in Java and genuinely want to move into Scala)
• Have a solid understanding of microservice architecture
• Know your way around Kafka and Kubernetes
• You are well known with Docker and GCP
• Communicate clearly in English and it is a plus if you speak Swedish
  
  

You likely have experience mentoring others or naturally step into that role when needed. Not because it sounds good on paper but because you care about the team succeeding as much as the code compiling.

We don’t care whether you learned this through a master’s degree, open-source contributions, or years of building things the hard way. What matters is what you know, how you think, and how you apply it.

What you get at Prisjakt

At Prisjakt, honesty, curiosity and care guide both our product and how we treat each other. You won’t need a “work persona” here. Just bring your real self and your engineering brain.

You’ll join a supportive tech community in Malmö, work on meaningful problems at scale, and have real influence over technical decisions. We won’t promise that every sprint is perfect — but we will promise interesting challenges, smart colleagues, and a culture where sharing knowledge is the default setting. Check out our Culture Book here

If that sounds like your kind of backend adventure, let’s talk.