Senior Backend Developer

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

About the Position

Forza Football is seeking a Senior Backend Developer with 6+ years of experience in Elixir and OTP to join their remote or Gothenburg-based team. You will 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. You will be working on the 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable backend services
• Collaborate with frontend teams to ensure seamless integration
• Design and implement highly available, resilient, and scalable systems
• Write clean, maintainable code and conduct regular code reviews
• Utilize caching strategies, message queues, and service-oriented architectures
• Set up and manage infrastructure and Linux servers
• Implement deployment tooling, monitoring, alerting, data visualization, load testing, and live system debugging

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience with Elixir and OTP
• Interest in systems that are highly available, resilient, and run at scale
• Experience with high-level system architecture design
• Sense of craftsmanship: strive for code quality and maintainability, write tests as part of your coding routine
• Knowledge about caching strategies, message queues, and service-oriented architectures
• 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

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 Forza Football

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 keep everything simple and avoid lengthy company policies, unnecessary meetings, and bureaucracy. We value self-reliance and believe the success of the company relies on the actions of each individual.

Our motto is that if the team is feeling well, the company is feeling well. That's why we created what we believe is one of the best ways of working where every employee has the autonomy to create a good balance between work and free time. As with everything, we strive to make the work environment and our products even better.