Senior Fullstack Software Engineer for Backstage

At Koalitionen we are currently looking for a skilled SW Engineer for one of our clients. 

Start Date: ASAP 

Location: Gothenburg

Skills required: Typescript, React, Web, Backstage.io

What’s in it for you? 

Would you like to be part of an amazing organization?

Do you have passion for improving developer experience? Keep reading!

You will be part of our Developer Experience organization with the mission to create great developer experience by providing platform products that support high performance & productivity for our software engineers. For us, every software engineer and software team is a potential customer, and we are obsessed with understanding our customers and how we can help them to be successful and productive. 

What you’ll do  

We are seeking an experienced, design minded, Senior Fullstack Software Engineer with experience in TypeScript and React to join our team and help us build our internal developer portal using Backstage.io open-source software. The internal developer portal will be the central hub for our internal developers, unifying infrastructure tooling, services, and developer documentation.

We see that with your background, you are easily up to speed with plugin development on Backstage, if you are not already. You will develop and maintain a set of core plugins for the Backstage app. You will also design the developer experience and life cycling of plugins for other teams contributing to the portal, making it easy to create, debug, test, release and lifecycle plugins.

You will be a member of an agile team working towards OKRs, team objectives and key results. You will work closely with your team to build up our development portal. You will also be responsible for maintaining and updating the portal as new tools and resources are added as well as supporting our users. 

Who you are

You have a strong background in web development which includes knowing the principles and best practices, and you are an expert in writing clean, efficient, and well documented code. We see that you are proficient in TypeScript and React as well as Git and GitHub and are excellent in problem-solving and debugging. You’re a person with an architectural mindset and have a very good understanding of DevOps, GitOps and Platform Engineering.

You are an excellent communicator, have proficient writing skills and a great ability to work in a team environment. We are an agile team and see that you are familiar with agile development methodologies.

Do you have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and are an experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineer looking to make a significant impact? In addition, enthusiastic about web development and design and have a strong desire to work in an exciting and challenging environment? Then, we would love to hear from you! If you have experience or are familiar with Backstage.io, including building and maintaining, it is a plus, but not a must. 

Apply now and become part of our team!