Backend Developer to Nordea Life & Pension Sweden

Job ID: 2312


Nordea Life & Pension Sweden is a subsidiary of Nordea Bank with its own internal IT organization. We are working closely with our business colleagues as we are responsible for developing modern services and platforms for our external and internal customers.

We are looking for a Backend Software Developer to help us digitalize the insurance market.  

We know that our customers' needs are changing, and we have a strong focus on matching them with the pension solutions of the future. We collaborate in finding opportunities and nurture a place of growth, so come up with your ideas, skills, and experiences, and let's make a difference together. Our unit Node IT currently works with some of Sweden's leading employers, including tech, IT-consultants and law firms. 

About our team 

Our team’s mission is to help employers and their employees towards a better and safer life. We offer you an exciting workplace with the opportunity to work on a modern technology stack (microservices, GraphQL, Node.js, GitHub, Google Cloud Platform) developing the premier benefit brokerage platform in Sweden. Our tech and product team consists of around 20 highly motivated colleagues. We welcome new ideas and technological solutions.  

As the Backend Developer you will be part of an agile team responsible for writing and maintaining several services in our microservice architecture. 

What you will be doing: 

• Develop new features in close collaboration with other teams, product managers, business users and other stakeholders
• Instrument applications for observability, debugging and continous improvement
• Work with our infrastructure team to implement best practices in terms of security and availability
• Continuously monitor the performance of the team’s services to fulfill SLOs and resolve issues
• Motivated to deliver business value through software automation 

At Node IT you get to work in a dynamic start-up-like environment, whilst having access to the great benefit package offered by Nordea Group and Nordea Life & Pensions Sweden.

Who you are 

As the Backend Developer, we expect that you have a great interest in the business to deliver concrete business value for our users.  

This is the right role for you if you: 

• Have a customer centric mindset and you seek actively value-creation opportunities through technology enablers 
• Can collaborate with different stakeholders such as business and IT units across the value chain 
• Like to develop yourself and learn new skills; being on top of new tech stuff 

Your experience and background: 

• +2 years of experience with DevOps and continuous delivery 
• Experience with Kubernetes and microservice architectures 
• Fluent English skills  
• Fluent Swedish skills
• Formal education in computer science and/or software development 

It is beneficial if you also know/have: 

• Experience writing Node.js microservices 
• Experience writing GraphQL apis 
• Experience from the insurance industry 
• Skilled at aligning diverse viewpoints and turning shared goals into concrete actions 

This role is open in Malmö. We follow hybrid model of working. 

What we offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 12/04/2026. For more information on the position, you are welcome to contact Head of Node IT, Simon Carmelid at simon.carmelid@nordea.com. Please note that we will proceed with potential candidates already during the application period. 

Selected candidates may have an introductory call with the hiring leader. We might include a technical home assignment in the recruitment process. If you have any questions about recruitment steps you may contact our recruiter Andreas Johansson at Andreas.johansson-3@nordea.com.

We reserve the right to reply only to selected applications.