Backend Developer – AI Platform & Editorial Tools

Do you enjoy building polished mobile experiences that people use every day? Do you care about thoughtful engineering, clean architecture, and creating apps that feel fast, reliable, and intuitive? Then this could be the role for you. As part of our vision to enrich people’s lives through stories, we’re growing our Apps team by hiring an Android Developer to help us build seamless listening experiences for hundreds of thousands of users across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. ABOUT THIS POSITION In this role, you’ll help shape how users experience our premium podcast and audiobook platform. You'll work closely with design, product, backend, QA, and DevOps to ensure the Podme Android app is high-performing, user-friendly, and continuously improving. You'll also contribute to technical decisions, feature design, and the ongoing evolution of our Android platform. What You'll Do * Contribute to the implementation of scalable and modern architecture as defined by the team * Develop, test, and deploy high-quality Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose * Write clean, readable, and well-tested code in line with team standards * Participate in code reviews and technical discussions with the team * Collaborate across functions to help define, design, and deliver impactful product features * Work closely with QA to support automation and ensure application stability * Identify and address technical debt while contributing to continuous improvements of the codebase * Evaluate and help introduce new tools, libraries, and development practices where appropriate WHAT YOU BRING You're an Android developer who enjoys building user-focused products and takes ownership of delivering high-quality solutions while working closely with product, design, backend and QA. * You have around 3–5 years of experience developing Android applications * You have a solid understanding of Kotlin and the Android SDK * You have hands-on experience with Jetpack libraries, especially Compose and Navigation * You understand REST APIs and common mobile architecture patterns such as MVVM or Clean Architecture * You are familiar with automated testing frameworks such as Espresso and JUnit * You take ownership of your work and proactively drive tasks to completion * You enjoy sharing knowledge and contributing to technical discussions and team improvements * You have strong communication and collaboration skills Bonus skills * Experience with media playback or streaming applications * Experience working with subscription-based consumer products WHY JOIN PODME? We offer an environment where you can have real impact, collaborate with experienced engineers, and continue growing your technical and product development skills. We also offer: * Strong engineering culture built on trust, autonomy, and continuous improvement * Flexible working hours and hybrid setup with three days per week in our Stockholm office (remote work is not an option) * Solid AI tooling to support you with your work * International collaboration with teammates across Stockholm, Kraków and Sarajevo * Great benefits through Schibsted: private healthcare, wellness allowance * Free access to Schibsted's media products including premium news and podcasts WHO WE ARE Podme is the place for premium podcasts and audiobooks. With over 350,000 paying subscribers, we’re available in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, and part of Schibsted Media since 2021. Our vision is to enrich people’s lives through stories, which embodies our core belief in the power of narratives to bring joy, meaning, and connection to individuals. We strive to create effortless and habit-forming audio and product experiences that resonate with the listener and add value in their everyday lives. We’re a friendly and passionate team of 80+ people, here to make listening effortless, inspiring, and part of everyday life. Backed by Schibsted Media, the largest media group in Scandinavia, we are now on a growth journey to build great product experiences for listeners across the Nordics.

Are you an engineering leader who enjoys creating clarity, improving engineering effectiveness, and helping engineers deliver with confidence? Do you care about iOS, Android, and Web capability as much as you care about people leadership? If so, we’d love to hear from you. As a part of our vision to enrich people’s lives through stories, we are strengthening the engineering foundation behind listener and subscriber experience by hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our iOS, Android, and Web engineers. In this role, you will help create the clarity, capability, and delivery conditions behind high-quality user-facing product development. This is a great opportunity to increase your impact at a fast-moving audio company backed by Schibsted Media, and to work with teams that combine quality engineering, product thinking, and care for the listener experience. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Lead, support, and develop a distributed group of iOS, Android, and Web engineers through coaching, feedback, growth planning, and clear role expectations. * Foster an inclusive and accountable environment where employees and consultants across locations have context and support. * Maintain visibility of capability, ownership, staffing needs, consultant dependency, and succession risks across the client-side engineering domain. * Support engineering strategy execution by partnering with product and tech leadership. * Surface technical debt, quality risks, release risks, infrastructure constraints, and operational needs early to enable informed decisions. * Strengthen engineering standards around maintainability, observability, security, performance, and operational excellence. * Help teams balance platform-specific excellence with cross-platform alignment where it improves user experience, delivery efficiency, quality, or maintainability. WHAT YOU BRING You combine people leadership with the technical understanding needed to support iOS, Android, Web, and user-facing product trade-offs. You create clarity in complex environments and help teams improve how they work. * Experience leading, coaching, mentoring or developing engineers. * Experience working with distributed or hybrid engineering teams. Previous management experience in this setup is a plus. * Understanding of modern software delivery practices and the quality needs of user-facing products. * Understanding of mobile release processes and the quality assurance needs of mobile releases. * Ability to balance engineering standards with team autonomy. * Ability to explain engineering trade-offs, risks, and constraints clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Clear communication and relationship-building skills. * Cost-conscious approach to staffing, tooling, infrastructure, and technical decisions. * Professional-level English communication skills. Swedish is beneficial. BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE * Experience leading mixed teams of employees and consultants. * Experience working with iOS, Android, Web, frontend, mobile release processes, web conversion flows, playback or listening experiences, experimentation, design systems, accessibility, or app-store release cycles. * Experience with subscription, media, audio, video, consumer products, or multi-market organisations. * Experience improving release confidence, production quality signals, test strategy, analytics instrumentation, frontend performance, or developer experience. * Experience supporting AI-assisted engineering, experimentation capability, or engineering productivity improvements. WHY JOIN PODME? At Podme, we believe in the power of audio stories to inform, entertain, and inspire. Backed by Schibsted, one of the Nordics’ leading media groups, we’re on a mission to deliver the best of podcasting and audiobooks to listeners across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. * Join a growing platform with a loyal and expanding user base. * Lead the iOS, Android, and Web engineering competence domain behind the product surfaces where listeners and subscribers experience Podme most directly. * Work closely with product, technology, and business stakeholders on problems that affect core listener and subscriber journeys. * Hybrid setup based in Krakow, with collaboration across Poland, Sweden, and Bosnia * Travel to Krakow occasionally, approximately 1-2 times per year * Great benefits through Schibsted and Podme * Free access to premium Podme content and audiobooks Help us build the engineering foundation behind the Nordic audio experience. Your next great challenge starts here. Apply now and let’s build something great together. Please note that due to the summer vacation period, we will start reviewing applications and contacting candidates from the beginning of August. Thank you for your patience. ABOUT PODME Podme is the place for premium podcasts and audiobooks. With over 350,000 paying subscribers, we’re available in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, and part of Schibsted Media since 2021. Our vision is to enrich people’s lives through stories, which embodies our core belief in the power of narratives to bring joy, meaning, and connection to individuals. We strive to create effortless and habit-forming audio and product experiences that resonate with the listener and add value in their everyday lives. We’re a friendly and passionate team of +80 people, here to make listening effortless, inspiring, and part of everyday life. Backed by Schibsted Media, the largest media group in Scandinavia, we are now on a growth journey which requires us to strengthen the engineering foundation needed to support product complexity, reliability, and sustainable delivery.