Toca Boca AB

Would you like to play a key part in the next evolution of Toca Boca’s technology platform? With over 60 million monthly active users, a massive global footprint, and peaks of about 1,400 requests per second, as a Senior Platform Engineer, you will shape the cloud infrastructure that powers our entire play ecosystem. At Toca Boca, we don’t lock you into endless, repetitive maintenance silos. Joining our newly established Central Tech platform team, you will enjoy broad, end-to-end ownership. Your mission will be to elevate our cloud strategy, build highly scalable backend platform services, and pave the way for a modern, efficient developer experience across all our game teams. You will partner with game developers, acting as a force multiplier so they can focus on what they do best: building the best possible games for kids and families worldwide. What you’ll be doing Drive the full lifecycle of Central Tech platform services—from greenfield development to optimizing high-throughput backend services handling millions of active players. Serve as an internal platform champion. You’ll deeply understand the needs of our game teams, building the tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that make their workflows seamless and efficient. Lead the evolution of our cloud environment, promoting best-in-class workflows using Terraform, Docker, and orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS/Kubernetes). Define and implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies (using tools like Datadog) alongside secure AWS practices to guarantee a resilient, top-tier platform. Act as a natural knowledge sharer. You'll coach other developers in cloud infrastructure best practices, raising the technical bar for the entire organization. Is This You? Strong professional experience with AWS at scale, ideally powering non-web consumers like mobile apps, APIs, and high-concurrency backend services. Deep hands-on experience in an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) environment (Terraform, etc.) and container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes/EKS). Solid production-level experience with TypeScript for backend development. A great understanding of databases, including both Relational and NoSQL database architectures (the larger the data volume, the better!). Experience configuring and working with modern observability suites (such as Datadog). A natural instinct for knowledge sharing, with a proven track record of coaching junior engineers and helping teams adopt new tools. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate open-ended, non-technical requirements into robust, elegant technical solutions. This is us! Toca Boca together with Sago Mini, Piknik and Lylli, make up Digital Games within Spin Master. We create games, digital toys, and everyday products that are filled with fun that kids from any corner of the world can instantly relate to. We celebrate the diversity and quirkiness of their world and give them the freedom to play in ways that only they can. The Spin Master Mission and Vision is to make life more fun by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun! Good to know! This position is full time and based in our Stockholm office with a hybrid working model. We apply a 6-month probationary period. As we’re an international company, with over 20 nationalities working here, and millions of users all over the world, you must be fluent in English. Toca Boca develops digital games that capture the power of play and that are filled with fun and silliness that kids around the world can instantly relate to. Since our first product launch in 2011, we have released 46 apps that have been downloaded more than 444 million times the world over, making us the No. 1 mobile-first kids brand in the App Store. Our products focus on sparking kids’ creativity and imagination, creating opportunities for open-ended play. With offices in Stockholm and San Francisco, Toca Boca is owned by Spin Master Corp., a global children’s entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties.

Would you like to play a key part in Toca Boca’s Data & Research engine? With over 60 million monthly active users and terabytes of daily data, as a Senior Data Scientist, you will play an integral role in understanding how kids and families engage with our play ecosystem, directly shaping fantastic, safe, and imaginative play experiences. At Toca Boca, we don’t lock you into narrow corporate silos or endless maintenance tasks. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will enjoy broad end-to-end ownership across the entire product lifecycle—from exploratory data science, advanced modeling, and experimentation to product strategy and monetization dynamics. You’ll join our Data & Analytics team while partnering seamlessly with our User Research team under a unified Insights banner. Together, we blend big data behavioral telemetry with qualitative player research, working closely with cross-functional game teams to unlock the full value of our play ecosystem. What you’ll be doing Uncover Deep Player Insights: Analyze complex player datasets to understand behavioral patterns, feature engagement, and retention drivers across our games, informing overall product and commerce strategy. Apply Advanced Statistical Methods: Apply statistical models, regression analysis, predictive segmentation, and experimental methods (A/B testing) to optimize product performance at scale. Bridge Quantitative & Qualitative Insights: Partner seamlessly with our User Research team under a unified Insights banner, connecting the "what" (big data trends) with the "why" (qualitative research) to deliver a 360-degree understanding of our players. End-to-End Ownership & Influence: Take full ownership of complex, ambiguous game product questions. Partner directly with PMs, Designers, and Engineers to translate complex datasets into clear, data-backed recommendations. Innovate & Evolve Workflows: Continuously refine our analytics capabilities by leveraging modern data science workflows, predictive modeling, and AI tools to accelerate discovery and analysis. What Success Looks Like Trusted Co-pilot: You become a trusted analytical partner to game teams, shaping product decisions through rigorous data science, experimentation, and player empathy. Broad Impact: You thrive with the freedom to influence multiple product areas—from core play loops and feature design to commerce and top-of-funnel engagement—without being pigeonholed. Holistic Insights: You successfully bridge quantitative behavioral data with qualitative user research to create unified narratives that inspire game design. Autonomy & Momentum: You help teams move quickly by surfacing key facts, reducing ambiguity, and solving open-ended problems that don't have predefined playbooks. Is This You? 3+ years of experience (or equivalent senior-level impact) in user-focused Data Science or Advanced Product Analytics within Gaming, Mobile Apps, or Interactive Digital Products. Empathy & Product Sense: Deep curiosity and intuition for player experience, engagement, and kids' digital environments. SQL Mastery & Data Exploration: Outstanding SQL skills querying cloud data warehouses (experience with Google BigQuery and DBT is a huge plus). Advanced DS Toolkit: Proficiency in Python (or R) for statistical modeling, machine learning, segmentation, and exploratory deep dives. Experience with BI tools like Tableau or Looker is a great plus! Rigorous Statistical Foundation: Strong track record in experimentation lifecycle design, A/B test analysis, and hypothesis testing. AI & Modern Workflows (Nice to have): Curiosity or Hands-on experience building, integrating, or utilizing AI/LLM tools within your data workflows or analytics stack. Clear Storytelling & Autonomy: Skilled at translating complex quantitative and qualitative data into simple, compelling recommendations for non-technical partners. Thrives with high autonomy in fast-paced environments. This is us! Toca Boca together with Sago Mini, Lylli and Originator, make up Digital Games within Spin Master. We create games, digital toys, and everyday products that are filled with fun that kids from any corner of the world can instantly relate to. We celebrate the diversity and quirkiness of their world and give them the freedom to play in ways that only they can. The Spin Master Mission and Vision is to make life more fun by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun! Good to know! This position is full time and based in our Stockholm office with a hybrid working model. We apply a 6-month probationary period. As we’re an international company, with over 20 nationalities working here, and millions of users all over the world, you must be fluent in English. Toca Boca develops digital games that capture the power of play and that are filled with fun and silliness that kids around the world can instantly relate to. Since our first product launch in 2011, we have released 46 apps that have been downloaded more than 444 million times the world over, making us the No. 1 mobile-first kids brand in the App Store. Our products focus on sparking kids’ creativity and imagination, creating opportunities for open-ended play. With offices in Stockholm and San Francisco, Toca Boca is owned by Spin Master Corp., a global children’s entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties.