Senior Backend Developer

About the Position

Forza Football is looking for Elixir backend developers to join our talented team (remote or in Gothenburg, Sweden).

Responsibilities

• Work in a small group of skilled developers and designers dedicated to building top-tier products for users all over the world with access to a former Elixir Core team member.
• Develop services that power our mobile apps-from the API that serves millions of clients to the push notification system that keeps our users up-to-date on their favourite football teams and competitions.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience with Elixir and OTP: you have developed applications for production use.
• An interest in systems that are highly available, resilient, and run at scale.
• Experience with high-level system architecture design.
• Sense of craftsmanship: you strive for code quality and maintainability, write tests as part of your coding routine.
• Knowledge about caching strategies, message queues, and service-oriented architectures.
• An understanding of setting up infrastructure and managing Linux servers.
• Experience with deployment tooling, monitoring, alerting, data visualization, load testing, and/or live system debugging.
• Strong articulation skills.
• Be a team player, have attention to detail, and be not afraid to share unconventional ideas.
• Good oral and written English, as Forza Football operates globally, and many employees are international.

We Offer

• Flexible working hours.
• Work wherever you're most productive.
• Six weeks paid vacation.
• Computer and gadget setup needed for work.
• Conference visits with accommodation and travel expenses paid.

About the Company

Forza Football is one of the most exciting companies in the Nordic sports space. We are a leading sports app with over 15 million downloads and 2 million monthly active users worldwide. Recognised for innovation and impact, we’ve won awards for Best Journalism in Sweden, Best Design, Best Start-up in Sweden, and were chosen by Apple as one of the top 25 apps to use in 2025.

Founded in 2012, Forza Football is a team of 25 people from 13 different countries, passionately crafting solutions using modern technologies to redefine the world of football in terms of access and equality. We value self-reliance and believe the success of the company relies on the actions of each individual.