Rovio Entertainment Corporation

Lead Server Developer

Rovio Entertainment Corporation

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Stockholm • Sweden

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

ASP.NETAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaKubernetes.NETNoSQLSQL

About the role

  • You will have impact and fun at work by:
  • - Taking the lead on our backend strategy, guiding the team as we plan to make the backend multi-tenant, turning it into a platform that can support multiple games
  • - Constantly driving architectural improvements and optimizing our cloud infrastructure
  • - Ensuring your solutions are built with a modular, scalable architecture and follow high quality coding practices, which you constantly advocate in your team
  • - Championing the overall technical health and quality of the game, proactively addressing technical debt and ensuring an excellent, high-performing player experience
  • - Collaborating with diverse stakeholders across Rovio and SEGA to ensure our tech stack is forward-thinking and inclusive
  • - Prioritizing work and planning roadmaps together with different feature development teams on the game to find win-win solutions for the game
  • - Fostering a transparent and honest environment where every team member feels heard and valued.

Requirements

  • 10+ Years of professional work experience in software development, with a significant focus on backend architecture, preferably developing REST APIs with C# and ASP.NET (or other languages like Java or Golang), building highly available, scalable and reliable services
  • Past experience as a technical leader influencing, initiating, owning and successfully driving key initiatives within sizable projects with direct impact on the business performance
  • Deep experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS with Kubernetes, especially managing ECS/EKS and RDS at scale, including experience with network and server security and high level of comfort working with high-traffic systems
  • Practical experience with concurrent and distributed systems
  • You're a trusted reference for architectural and design topics, consistently delivering simple, extensible solutions to complex problems by applying core software principles (like SOLID, TDD, and clean architecture)
  • Good understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, including data modeling and database design skills
  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
  • A proactive and empathetic mindset, with the ability to build trust and drive consensus across the team
  • A natural desire to mentor, showing a history of helping peers and sharing knowledge generously.
Benefits
  • We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or conditions in our working environment and job application procedures.
  • We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility.
  • If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at recruitment@rovio.com.
  • If not in Sweden, we are able to provide relocation support.
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend architectureREST APIsC#ASP.NETJavaGolangcloud infrastructureKubernetesECSRDS
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationtransparencyempathymentorshiptrust buildingconsensus drivingcommunicationproblem solvingadvocacy
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Software Engineering