Senior Backend Developer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jun 1, 2026.
Do you thrive in collaborative teams and want your work to shape what players experience every day?
As a Backend Developer at Snowprint, you’ll build the backend systems, infrastructure, and tools that power our games. You’ll work closely with your fellow developers, designers, and other disciplines to create stable, scalable solutions, always with the player experience in mind.
At Snowprint Studios, we believe that kindness, collaboration, curiosity, and self-leadership are what make great games possible. We work in small, cross-disciplinary teams where people are trusted to take ownership, share ideas openly, and continuously improve how we build games together.
What you’ll be doing
You'll bring new game features to life while also supporting the systems, tooling, and infrastructure behind them. The role combines feature development with live operations, giving you the opportunity to work on both player-facing functionality and the technical foundations that keep the game running.
You'll take ownership of the technical areas you work on, from planning and implementation to testing and live operations. A normal week might include feature development, playtests, troubleshooting production issues, discussing technical approaches with the team, and improving systems to support future needs as the game evolves.
You’ll collaborate closely with your colleagues to shape technical solutions that work well for both the game and the people building it.
Is this you?
You’re an experienced backend developer who is fluent in Kotlin and/or Java and has experience working with live backend services. You’re comfortable operating cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
You’re comfortable with live operations, including troubleshooting complex production issues and balancing bug fixing and fine-tuning with longer-term improvements and planning.
You take ownership of your work and are comfortable working independently while staying connected to the bigger picture. You enjoy solving problems, making decisions, and seeing things through from idea to implementation.
You communicate clearly and collaborate well with colleagues across different disciplines. You’re comfortable asking questions, discussing technical approaches, and working through problems together.
Where you’ll work
Our Stockholm studio is located in Södermalm, and we work in a hybrid setup. We work from the office on Tuesdays and Fridays to support collaboration and social interaction, while other days offer flexibility depending on where you work best. We provide the setup and tools you need to work comfortably both at home and in the studio.
About Snowprint Studios
Snowprint Studios believes great games are created by teams of talented, kind and creative individuals in a friendly, supportive and inspiring environment - while maintaining a sustainable life-work balance. For more information on Snowprint Studios go to snowprintstudios.com and follow us on Facebook.
At Snowprint Studios, we embrace diversity both in the worlds we create and in our workplace. Join us in shaping the future of gaming!
Pocket Gamer Awards Winner ‘Mobile game of the year’ and ‘Best strategy game’ 2022
Pocket Gamer Awards Winner 'Best game we are still playing’ 2024 & 2026
Pocket Gamer Awards Finalist, ‘Best developer’ 2025
Pocket Gamer Awards Winner, ‘Best updated game’ & ‘Best community’ 2026
Good to know
We are an international company with many nationalities represented. Our company language is English, so your application should therefore be in English.
For this position we prefer you to already be located in Stockholm, but are open to applicants located within the EU who are willing to relocate.