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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.\nAt 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.\nYou 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.\nWhat you’ll be doing\nDrive the full lifecycle of Central Tech platform services-from greenfield development to optimizing high-throughput backend services handling millions of active players.\nServe 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.\nLead the evolution of our cloud environment, promoting best-in-class workflows using Terraform, Docker, and orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS/Kubernetes).\nDefine and implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies (using tools like Datadog) alongside secure AWS practices to guarantee a resilient, top-tier platform.\nAct as a natural knowledge sharer. You'll coach other developers in cloud infrastructure best practices, raising the technical bar for the entire organization.\n Is This You?\nStrong professional experience with AWS at scale, ideally powering non-web consumers like mobile apps, APIs, and high-concurrency backend services.\nDeep hands-on experience in an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) environment (Terraform, etc.) and container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes/EKS).\nSolid production-level experience with TypeScript for backend development.\nA great understanding of databases, including both Relational and NoSQL database architectures (the larger the data volume, the better!).\nExperience configuring and working with modern observability suites (such as Datadog).\nA natural instinct for knowledge sharing, with a proven track record of coaching junior engineers and helping teams adopt new tools.\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to translate open-ended, non-technical requirements into robust, elegant technical solutions.\nThis is us!\nToca 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.\nThe Spin Master Mission and Vision is to make life more fun by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun!\nGood to know!\nThis position is full time and based in our Stockholm office with a hybrid working model. We apply a 6-month probationary period. 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