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Senior Software Engineer

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Overview

We're building one of the most ambitious tech teams in Sweden, defined by customer obsession, high shipping pace, and visible product impact. We’re a 125-person EdTech scale-up powering learning in 120+ countries.

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We're building one of the most ambitious tech teams in Sweden, defined by customer obsession, high shipping pace, and visible product impact.

We’re a 125-person EdTech scale-up powering learning in 120+ countries. Our intelligent platform replaces traditional textbooks and combines rich, interactive pedagogy with smart AI and data to help students and teachers thrive, from international schools to US high schools.

What We Offer

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Responsibilities

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  • Design, build and ship full-stack features in Python and TypeScript, using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate execution while maintaining high quality and ownership from concept through iteration

  • Design and evolve systems with a strong focus on architecture, boundaries and long-term maintainability, making sound technical decisions across APIs, data models, caching and testing

  • Own problem spaces end-to-end, including shaping ambiguous requirements, defining the right approach and guiding execution toward robust, scalable solutions

  • Continuously improve the codebase by simplifying solutions, reducing technical complexity and driving changes that have an impact across the team and system

  • Guide and review implementation, including work produced through AI-assisted workflows, ensuring quality, consistency and alignment with system design

  • Strong coding ability in JavaScript or TypeScript and at least one backend language, combined with the ability to evaluate, guide and refine implementation to reach production-ready outcomes efficiently

  • Proven experience building and shipping features in a fast-moving product environment, with a track record of delivering high-quality solutions with real impact

  • Experience owning features end-to-end, including shaping requirements, making technical decisions and iterating based on feedback and outcomes

  • Strong understanding of system design, with attention to architecture, abstraction and long-term maintainability

  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools, or a strong interest in adopting them as a core part of how you design, build and iterate on software

  1. Discovery call with a Recruiter

  2. Hiring manager discussion

  3. Live coding session

  4. Values discussion

  5. Systems design session

  6. Leadership talk

Every qualified person will be evaluated regardless of age, gender, identity, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status or religion. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team and welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

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Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Sweden
Remote within one country
Who can apply
SE

Listing Details

Posted
January 20, 2026
First seen
May 7, 2026
Last seen
May 7, 2026

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kognitySenior Software Engineer