Senior Cloud & Backend Architect

Do you like designing backend and cloud solutions that don’t just work today, but continue to perform as products, traffic, and complexity grow? At Framna, we’re looking for a Senior Cloud & Backend Architect with deep experience in .NET and Azure who can take ownership of the bigger technical picture - from application architecture and infrastructure to scalability, resilience, security, and multi-region cloud setups.

You’ll be someone who can zoom in on a complex backend challenge, zoom out to understand how the whole system fits together, and make architectural decisions that create reliable, scalable, and maintainable products for the long term.

Become part of the team

Framna partners with some of the world’s most ambitious brands, like Swish, SJ, Essity, and SEB, to create digital products that define markets and deliver real-world impact. We are more than 600 people across our studios, building apps and digital products used by millions every day.

As our next Senior Cloud & Backend Architect, you’ll join our team in Stockholm, working alongside developers, designers, QA engineers, analysts, and product leads to take ideas from first sketch to live product.

You’ll play a key role in shaping the technical foundations behind the products we build, working across backend architecture, cloud infrastructure, scalability, security, and operations. Depending on the project, that might mean designing a new cloud architecture from the ground up, evolving an existing platform to handle significantly greater scale, or defining how services and infrastructure should operate reliably across multiple regions.

You’ll also become part of Framna’s wider engineering and cloud community across our studios - sharing knowledge, challenging technical assumptions, discussing architecture, and helping us continuously improve how we build.

And while we collaborate across locations, Stockholm is where you’ll call home. We’re looking for someone who genuinely enjoys being around their colleagues and wants the office to be a natural part of their working week.

What you’ll do

This is a senior architectural role for someone who enjoys taking ownership of complex technical systems and making decisions that hold up over time.

You’ll work across backend development, cloud architecture, infrastructure, and operations, with a particular focus on .NET and Microsoft Azure.

More specifically, you will:

• Design and evolve scalable backend and cloud architectures primarily using .NET and Microsoft Azure.

• Define technical architectures for products that need to remain reliable, performant, and maintainable as usage and complexity grow.

• Design cloud infrastructure with high availability, resilience, disaster recovery, and scalability in mind.

• Architect and implement multi-region solutions, considering areas such as data replication, failover, latency, availability, and regional dependencies.

• Make architectural decisions around services, APIs, databases, networking, messaging, caching, storage, and other cloud components.

• Help teams choose the right architectural patterns and level of complexity for the problem at hand.

• Identify technical risks, bottlenecks, and scaling challenges before they become problems in production.

• Work with infrastructure as code, deployment strategies, observability, monitoring, and operational readiness.

• Ensure security is considered throughout the architecture, from infrastructure and networking to identity, access, and application design.

• Collaborate closely with developers, product teams, and partners to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Act as a senior technical advisor in client and project discussions, explaining architectural choices, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly.

• Mentor developers and engineers, lead technical discussions, and help raise the architectural capability of the teams around you.

Who you are

We imagine you have 10+ years of professional experience within backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, software architecture, or a combination of these, with substantial hands-on experience working with C#/.NET and Microsoft Azure.

At this level, we’re looking for more than deep technical knowledge. You’ve built enough systems, seen enough things go wrong, and made enough architectural decisions to understand the trade-offs behind them.

You know that good architecture isn’t about making something as sophisticated as possible. It’s about designing the right solution for the context - and making sure it can evolve when that context changes.

You might recognise yourself if you:

• Have deep professional experience with C#/.NET and Microsoft Azure.

• Have designed and owned architecture for complex, business-critical backend systems.

• Have strong experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.

• Understand how to design systems for horizontal scaling, high availability, resilience, and fault tolerance.

• Have experience designing or operating multi-region cloud architectures and understand the trade-offs involved.

• Are comfortable making decisions around databases, APIs, networking, messaging, caching, identity, security, and cloud services.

• Understand infrastructure as code and modern approaches to CI/CD and cloud operations.

• Think beyond application code and consider the complete system, including infrastructure, observability, deployment, security, and operational support.

• Know how to evaluate architectural trade-offs around performance, complexity, cost, maintainability, and time to market.

• Can move comfortably between strategic architecture discussions and hands-on technical problem-solving.

• Are comfortable communicating complex technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Enjoy mentoring engineers and helping teams make stronger technical decisions.

• Take pride in building systems that are not only technically impressive, but genuinely dependable and easy to operate.

• Enjoy working from the office and being part of the everyday life of a team.

About Framna

Framna means ‘to bring forward’ in Old Norse. And that is exactly what we do. We partner with industry leaders (and those about to be) to create excellent digital products that define markets, reshape industries, and deliver meaningful impact.

Born from the union of digital agencies Bontouch, Move, and Shape, Framna emerged from a strong, product-led culture. Today, over 600 of us collaborate across eight studios in Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US.

Every day, millions of users around the world rely on the products we help shape. From seamless payments to daily commutes, from better health management to smarter shopping. Our work supports more than €150 million in daily transactions and consistently earns an average App Store rating of 4.5.

Together with some of the world’s most ambitious brands, including Essity, SJ, Swish, and SEB, we craft products that lead markets and push boundaries. Because when products win, businesses win. We call it Win by product.

What you get

• For us, it’s office first. Our cozy Stockholm office is our main location for work. Right in the middle of the city, it’s a welcoming space where there’s always something happening, whether it is a demo, a fika, or someone testing out a new idea. We spend time together to build culture, optimize for stronger collaboration, better products, and greater value for our partners - challenging ourselves while having fun doing it. We mix that with the freedom to work from home when it makes sense, and hours that flex around real life.

• A culture of curiosity. On Fridays we have weekly demos, Wednesdays mean lunch-and-learns, and sometimes we throw ourselves into conceptathons just to see what happens. We gather for company conferences to share ideas, and we take time to learn something new when needed.

• The freedom to follow your “what if.” We believe the best roles are shaped by the people in them. If you are curious about something, you will have the trust and space to chase it, and probably a few teammates who want to jump in with you.

• Teammates who bring their whole selves. Designers who doodle during standups, engineers who can’t resist showing off a clever hack, product leads who keep the energy up when things get tricky. Around here, people genuinely like sharing what they know and celebrating when someone tries something new.

• And of course, the benefits you’d expect. A generous wellness grant, top-up on your parental leave, occupational pension, and plenty more to make life outside of work easier.

Please note: For this role, you need to be based in Stockholm, Sweden, or within commuting distance of our Östersund studio. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer relocation.

Our hiring process

• First interview

• Case assignment

• Technical interview

• Final meeting