Backend engineer

About this role

About Carla AB

At Carla, we believe that more people should be able to drive electric vehicles. Therefore, we have set out to build the safest, most convenient and transparent way to sell, buy, or lease an electric car. Carla was founded in 2020 in Stockholm, with strong VC backing. We are now in an exciting growth phase and are looking for like minded people. That means being driven, humble, and excited about creating outstanding and effective experiences and smart solutions. Recruitment need Carla is a startup in an exciting growth phase, and we are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to contribute to the technical development of products within our Product & Tech team. Your primary focus will be solving important and complex problems with high-quality code, primarily in Go, while also being comfortable and keen to work end-to-end when needed in our TypeScript / React frontends. We value engineers who combine strong engineering fundamentals with curiosity for modern tools, including AI-assisted development, to increase their impact and effectiveness. You will help ensure our systems are robust, scalable and reliable, while also contributing to a codebase that is easy to understand, maintain and evolve. If you enjoy working close to real business problems, collaborating across product and engineering, and building efficient systems that drive business success, this role is for you! Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Hands-On Backend Development Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, primarily in Go for our backend, while being comfortable and keen to work end-to-end in our React and TypeScript frontend when needed Use modern development tools, including AI-assisted workflows, to improve your speed, quality and impact as an engineer Design, develop and enhance backend services and APIs that are critical to our operations, including inspection, workshop planning, quality control and beyond Debug and resolve technical issues quickly to en