Lead Server Developer

Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer? Click here.

We’re looking for a Lead Server Developer to join the Angry Birds 2 team in Stockholm, to work and directly impact the future of our biggest game. In this role you will be a key owner and a driver for the technical direction of our server-side logic, working closely with our Technical Director to evolve the game backend.

Your mission is to support our game’s ability to scale with both new players and new larger features. You will be bringing smart long term solutions while daily contributing to the codebase yourself. You will also act as the bridge between the game team and our central tech departments, ensuring our backend is as robust as it is innovative.

If you’re an expert developer with a heart for mentorship and a desire to lead, we’ll provide the environment for you to flourish. Our team works in an amazing office at the heart of Stockholm and hope you would like to join us here. If not in Sweden, we are able to provide relocation support.

Our stack includes but is not limited to Claude Code, C#, ASP.NET, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS Bedrock, EKS and RDS.

You will have impact and fun at work by:

Taking the lead on our backend strategy, guiding the team as we plan to make the backend multi-tenant, turning it into a platform that can support multiple games

Constantly driving architectural improvements and optimizing our cloud infrastructure

Ensuring your solutions are built with a modular, scalable architecture and follow high quality coding practices, which you constantly advocate in your team

Championing the overall technical health and quality of the game, proactively addressing technical debt and ensuring an excellent, high-performing player experience

Collaborating with diverse stakeholders across Rovio and SEGA to ensure our tech stack is forward-thinking and inclusive

Prioritizing work and planning roadmap