Senior Aviation Platform Engineer

Flightradar24 is one of the most successful growth-stage tech companies in Stockholm. Each month more than 50 million aviation enthusiasts visit Flightradar24 (app/website) and our Commercial services team has many of the biggest names in aviation on its customer list.

We are looking for a Senior Aviation Platform Engineer, who can quickly understand existing systems, work independently, and deliver value from day one. You will play a key role in evolving our aviation data and improving flight matching algorithms, working closely with other engineers and stakeholders. You will be part of a platform engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable data solutions in AWS. The work includes both hands-on development and architectural decision-making.

The position requires that you are able to work in Stockholm, Sweden. Relocation is not offered for this role.

What you’ll do

Your responsibilities include

Real-time aircraft telemetry

Global receiver networks (ADS-B, Mode-S, MLAT)

Noisy radio data

Flight trajectory processing and reconstruction

Aviation data pipelines

Geo-spatial computation

Airspace analytics

Aircraft state vectors

Large-scale historical flight datasets

Work with data that powers aviation insights

access to the largest open aircraft surveillance dataset in the world

systems used by millions of aviation enthusiasts every month

data that contributes to accident investigations and aviation safety

Who you are

Has several years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems

Is self-driven and comfortable making technical decisions independently

Can quickly understand and work within an existing codebase and architecture

Values clean code, testing, automation, and pragmatic engineering practices

Communicates clearly and professionally in English