Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

ASSA ABLOY AB

Build technology that protects people, places, and everyday life. Your work won’t sit quietly in a backlog. It will shape secure, connected solutions used around the world — and you’ll have the trust and freedom to do your best work along the way. Why this role matters At Assa Abloy, technology plays a direct role in creating a safer, more open world. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be part of teams building secure, scalable digital platforms that power smart access solutions globally. This is a role for someone who wants to own meaningful problems, contribute to technical direction, and work in an environment where quality, balance, and long-term thinking genuinely matter. The role You’ll work as part of a small, cross-functional team with shared end-to-end responsibility, collaborating closely to drive work from idea to delivery and continuous improvement. The team owns both the direction and execution, with a strong focus on improving our customers’ hospitality experience. In this role, you’re expected to take initiative and help move work forward, ensuring progress and alignment across disciplines. You’ll challenge assumptions, surface risks early, and contribute to sound technical decisions by bringing clarity, pragmatism and focus to complex discussions while helping the team deliver meaningful, high-quality outcomes. What you’ll work on Deliver meaningful features end-to-end — design, build, test, deploy, and evolve backend-focused services with a strong sense of ownership and quality. Build modern, scalable systems — develop primarily in Java, Kotlin, Golang, collaborating with frontend engineers and contributing where needed to React/TypeScript applications. Shape architecture and technical direction — apply Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, microservice and event-driven patterns to solve complex problems and raise the bar across the team. Lead cloud-native development — design and operate services on AWS, using containers, orchestration platforms, and serverless patterns to build resilient, future-proof solutions. Design data and system behaviour at scale — model data across NoSQL and relational systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and secure operation in distributed environments. Strengthen delivery and operational excellence — improve CI/CD pipelines, support production systems, and continuously refine engineering practices for long-term sustainability. What will help you succeed Solid senior experience (5+ years) building backend systems in cloud-native, distributed environments. Strong ownership mindset — you’re comfortable taking a feature from idea to production and standing behind your decisions. Architectural judgement — you know when and how to apply DDD, TDD, microservices, and event-driven design pragmatically. Hands-on cloud and DevOps experience — particularly with AWS, containerisation, CI/CD, and modern deployment models. Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and methods to enhance productivity, code quality, and system design. Clear, thoughtful communication and a willingness to mentor others. Why Assa Abloy At Assa Abloy, you’ll join a global organisation with a distinctly Scandinavian approach to work: trust over control, clarity over noise, and people over process. Meaningful mission — Your software helps protect homes, businesses, and communities around the world, contributing to solutions people rely on every day Innovation at scale — Work with modern cloud platforms, event-driven architectures, and evolving technologies in a global environment Autonomy and trust — You’re trusted to make decisions, influence design, and own your work from idea to impact Growth and development — Learn continuously, deepen your technical expertise, and explore opportunities across teams and borders Work–life balance — Flexible working, hybrid options, and a culture that supports sustainable performance Ready to build something that matters? If you’re looking for a senior developer role where your skills, judgement, and wellbeing are genuinely valued, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and bring your expertise to a role where your decisions truly shape the future of smart access. We review applications continuously, so don’t wait. We’re committed to building diverse, inclusive teams and encourage applications from all who see themselves thriving here. To make sure your personal data stays protected, we do not review applications sent via email or post. If you have questions about the role or process, contact Léa Rein, Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner. Let’s create a safer and more open world — together. We are the ASSA ABLOY Group Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access. As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.

Senior Backend Engineer

Legora

ABOUT US Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar. Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes. 1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview. We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law. Joining Legora means three things. * We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions. * We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback. * We grow together: as a team and with our customers. Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts. If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place. The role As a Senior Backend Engineer at Legora you will build, review and ship amazing products helping legal professionals all over the world in their day-to-day job. You’ll get the chance to work across the entire tech stack with clear ownership and autonomy. What you will be doing: * Architect and implement features for our web platform * Take ownership of our codebase, balancing high-quality code, security and speed of development * Work with technologies such as Node.js, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS, Azure and Kubernetes * Review code and mentor junior colleagues to support them in their development, making the team even better! * Drive continuous improvement and challenge us, the industry and yourself * You’ll travel regularly to Stockholm for onboarding, collaboration, and major product milestones — working shoulder-to-shoulder with the team when it matters most. Who you are * A passionate engineer with several years of experience building great products using cutting-edge technologies * You feel comfortable working across the entire tech stack, with focus on backend development * You’re autonomous and take pride in the code you write * You’re a problem solver who’s not afraid to come up with creative solutions and think holistically about software architecture * Experience in infrastructure and integrations are a big plus Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Senior Backend Engineer

9fin

About 9fin 9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide. What you'll work on The team maintains a strong focus on impact, using technology to deliver value for the business. While we have a high-level vision from the business, we have autonomy to set our team goals and define our own success. We take responsibility for our outcomes and emphasize proactive behaviours like ownership and accountability. * As part of a cross functional team, lead projects by defining and designing systems, building proof of concepts, and delivering new service functionality - including APIs, data processing and automation - while collaborating with Product and Clients * Development and engineering primarily on the backend services and web application hosted tools and systems of the 9fin platform. * Play an impactful role within project teams as a senior IC, running code reviews, mentoring other developers, leadership & involvement in early research and experimentation with new technologies providing input for new features and products. * Continually improve the 9fin codebase taking the chance to automate, refactor and document when it’s most impactful.. * Very diverse web platforms, from complex financial data modelling, complex access control business logic, capturing environmental, emission, energy data, incorporation of ML/AI prediction services, data visualisation serving and automation systems. * Collaboration and teamwork: Cross functional teams are formed for all projects including the appropriate domain expertise from 9fin financial, legal and editorial colleagues. This allows the best quality information and feedback to go directly to engineering project teams. Your ability to explain and break down complex projects to non technical audiences will enable productive and efficient team progress. * Developer Experience: Through managed automated preview environments, feature flags and well maintained non production environments. You will be able to move with velocity and get feedback and iterate quickly. Our Backend Stack * Python is the dominant backend language used * Flask & FastAPI * Typing is used within our Python stack to power automated documentation and API definitions * Relational Databases (PostgreSQL) at the heart of majority of services * We have our own internal developer platform with standardised paved road approaches to infrastructure to bring your code into production as quickly as possible. * We’re AWS for Cloud hosted services * Heavy use of AWS lambda Serverless * Docker (AWS ECS) for uniform development/deployment from dev to prod Requirements This role will be a great fit if you: * Have experience operating as a Senior IC Engineer, leading systems design and infrastructure discussions, mentoring more junior team members, and scoping work within cross-functional product teams. * Plan and reason about software effectively, clearly and compellingly communicating its purpose within systems and its business impact on clients * Have hands-on experience designing data flow through software, from persistent storage to API endpoints, while applying industry best practices for validation * Experience with Python and its web frameworks (we currently use FastAPI with strong typing & Pydantic) * Strong experience delivering APIs, Service Oriented Architecture * Strong working knowledge of SQL statements for retrieving data * A good collaborator and communicator with cross functional engineering teammates and others within 9fin * Code Quality: Through writing testable, maintainable code, and by engaging in code review for your own work and for reviewing others Nice-to-have: * Experience in data modelling and with a pipeline orchestrator Benefits We’re a scaling start up and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel. Financial & Insurance * Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market) * Equity options * Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%) * Private Medical Insurance * Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness * Group Life Assurance * Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes Time off * 25 holiday days per year * Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days) * Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work * Work abroad for up to 3 months a year * 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service * Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available Training & Culture * Professional learning and development budget * Quarterly team socials * Summer and Winter company social events 9fin is an equal opportunities employer At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.