Backend Engineer - Waitwhile This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Waitwhile and our selected partners use cookies and similar technologies (together “cookies”) that are necessary to present this website, and to ensure you get the best experience of it. If you consent to it, we will also use cookies for analytics and marketing purposes. See our Cookie Policy to read more about the cookies we set. You can withdraw and manage your consent at any time, by clicking “Manage cookies” at the bottom of each website page. Accept all cookies Decline all non-necessary cookies Cookie preferences Select which cookies you accept On this site, we always set cookies that are strictly necessary, meaning they are necessary for the site to function properly. If you consent to it, we will also set other types of cookies. You can provide or withdraw your consent to the different types of cookies using the toggles below. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time, by clicking the link “Manage Cookies”, that is always available at the bottom of the site. To learn more about what the different types of cookies do, how your data is used when they are set etc, see our Cookie Policy . Strictly necessary These cookies are necessary to make the site work properly, and are always set when you visit the site. Vendors Teamtailor Analytics These cookies collect information to help us understand how the site is being used. Vendors Teamtailor Marketing These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. In some cases, they also deliver additional functions on the site. Vendors Youtube, Meta Accept these cookies Decline all non-necessary cookies Skip to main content common--header--menu#toggle" data-common--header--menu-target="button" > Career menu Start Departments Locations People Jobs The Waitwhile Way Employee Log in as employee Candidate Log in to Connect Homepage waitwhile.com Share page Facebook X LinkedIn Mail Engineering · Stockholm · Hybrid Backend Engineer You're joining Waitwhile at the beginning of our journey. As one of our first team members, you'll have a huge impact on the company, culture and product - and you'll get to learn a ton and have fun. Apply for this job
Who we are💙 Here at Waitwhile we're on a mission to eliminate the 1 trillion hours people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform combines virtual waitlists, scheduling, real-time updates, messaging, and analytics to make access to places, services, and events seamless, online or in person. Trusted by 10,000+ companies, Waitwhile has already helped over 150 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience. Our clients include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Costco, Delta Airlines, and thousands more. We’re just getting started, and we need your help.
The role As a member of our Service Intelligence team, you’ll focus on the backend systems, infrastructure, and data foundations that power Waitwhile at enterprise scale and enable our clients to access valuable insights on their daily operations. You’ll work closely with our VP of Engineering and our cross-functional engineering teams, contributing to scalable, high-impact features that improve both our platform and user experience. This is also where we’re building the foundation for our AI initiatives, working with rich operational data to unlock smarter insights around things like wait times, staffing, and service performance. Our tech stack includes TypeScript and JavaScript, NodeJS, Firebase, Firestore, BigQuery, Angular, and React, running on Linux in Google Cloud Platform. While engineers may specialize deeply, Waitwhile increasingly values end-to-end product ownership and cross-stack collaboration as the organization scales. We're open to different backgrounds; what matters most is your drive, problem-solving acumen, and ambition to level up your skills while building something that truly makes a difference. This position is based in Stockholm at our offices on Kungsgatan 32. We’re a hybrid company and prefer that you work from the office at least 2 days per week, as we believe the best product gets built together, live. What you’ll own Full engineering lifecycle including technical design, implementation, automated testing, deployment, and production monitoring. Drive improvements to engineering best practices, tooling, and code quality. Scalability, reliability, observability, and compliance across services and internal platforms. Design, implement, and evolve APIs, workflows, and backend services that support core product functionality. Improve monitoring, logging, deployment systems, and operational tooling to support long-term platform health. What skills you need 6+ years of experience building web applications. Strong experience with Node.js and designing scalable backend architectures. Cloud hosting and operations. Experience selecting and operating the right data storage solutions to ensure application responsiveness and scalability. Comfort in collaborating across the stack to support complete product experiences. Great communication skills, comfortable explaining complex concepts to cross-functional teams. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Bonus Skills & Attributes: Previously worked at a startup or on a SaaS product. Experience with infrastructure as code. Direct experience with Firebase, Firestore, and/or BigQuery. Experience with monitoring, reliability engineering, and operational best practices. Security-minded approach to platform development. A great place to work❤️ We want Waitwhile to be an incredible place to work. We offer great
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perks, flexible working hours and lots of interesting challenges. We believe in making work fun and rewarding and care about your development and are committed to your success. Join Waitwhile at this exciting stage and help shape both our future and your own. Waitwhile has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, what are you waiting for? Apply for this job! Department Engineering Role Software Engineer, Backend Locations Stockholm Remote status Hybrid Contact Mathilda Garte Talent Acquisition – Operations We're Hiring! Fullstack Engineer Engineering · Stockholm · Hybrid Open application - Software Engineer Engineering · Stockholm · Hybrid More jobs Stockholm Grow with us. Life balance We're parents, care-givers and multi-faceted humans that don't want to spend all our time working. We do great work, but also encourage a great work-life balance. Autonomy Your self-starting personality will shine when you have the freedom to shape your work and help guide the product's direction. Great
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benefits, retirement packages and generous time-off policies help keep your overall well-being a priority. Professional growth We want to see you thrive. You will contribute to the larger vision of Waitwhile while growing in your career journey. Take time for yourself. You have a life outside of work, and Waitwhile offers a generous time-off policy for you to enjoy it. About Waitwhile Waitwhile is a wait management platform that helps businesses deliver better waiting experiences for their customers through automated, personalized and smartphone-based line experiences. Waitwhile has improved the wait experience for over 250 million guests and collectively given people back over 100k years they would have otherwise wasted waiting in line. Our customers include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Google, Facebook and thousands of other businesses looking to improve their waiting experiences. The company was founded in 2017 in San Francisco with the mission to eliminate the 1 Trillion hours that humans waste standing in line every year. Waitwhile has secured $12 million in funding from investors including CRV and has offices in the US and Sweden. Founded in 2017 Coworkers 45 Apply for this job Engineering · Stockholm · Hybrid Backend Engineer You're joining Waitwhile at the beginning of our journey. As one of our first team members, you'll have a huge impact on the company, culture and product - and you'll get to learn a ton and have fun. Loading application form Career site Start Departments Locations People Jobs The Waitwhile Way Data & privacy Manage cookies Locations New York San Francisco Stockholm Atlanta Departments Product Customer Success Marketing Engineering Operations Sales All departments waitwhile.com Employee login · SSO Candidate Connect login Already working at Waitwhile? Let’s recruit together and find your next colleague. @waitwhile.com Log in Applicant tracking system by Teamtailor
