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Max König

Max König

Engineering Manager / Software Engineering Leader

Döbelnsgatan 3C, Malmö, Skåne, SE, 212 13
+46 703 - 49 48 90
Swedish, English, Spanish, German

Background


About

About

Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience in software development and 3+ years in people leadership. Experienced in supporting and developing engineers through coaching, performance reviews, and career development, while working closely with engineering teams to deliver software products. Strong technical background across embedded, mobile and web development, combined with a people-centric and pragmatic leadership style.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Regional ManagerKnightec Group (formerly Tedsys)

    Jan, 2025 - Present

    Progressed into the role as Regional Manager for the software department at Knightec Group in Malmö, leading several teams of around 40 software consultants.

    • Coached engineers and team leads through regular 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations

    • Led recruitment efforts including interviewing, and hiring engineers to meet organizational and customer needs.

    • Salary setting

    • Responsible for budget, utilization and financial results for the software consulting organization in region south.

    • Sales and customer relations

  • Team ManagerTedsys

    Feb, 2022 - Dec, 20242 years 11 months

    The team lead role at Tedsys was a dual role that involved both consulting and part time managing a team of consultants. The responsibilities for the leadership part consists of salary setting, coaching and helping the team members develop their careers and supporting them as well as creating a good work environment to work in. I was also part of the managing team and assisted in recruitment, operations and strategy.

  • Frontend DeveloperIKEA

    Feb, 2022 - Dec, 20242 years 11 months

    Frontend developer in the team responsible for developing an internal tool for budgeting, planning and ordering assets. The application was built with a multi frontend architecture using React and Typescript. I worked in close collaboration with the team's backend and UI/UX personnel and my team was also responsible for automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Lead developer, Hemma i Sverige

    Dec, 2018 - Jan, 20223 years 2 months

    Lead developer at a sustainable mortgage startup responsible for designing and building the public-facing mortgage application and internal ERP system. Worked closely with founders and business stakeholders to translate product and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.

    • Led the technical design and development of the mortgage application platform.

    • Collaborated cross-functionally with product, business and design stakeholders to shape product requirements and priorities.

    • Took ownership of delivery for key product features from concept to production.

    • Acted as the main technical partner for stakeholders, helping translate business needs into software solutions.

    • Built the mortgage application frontend using GatsbyJS and internal applications using Next.js.

    • Developed backend services in Python.

  • Software DeveloperTedsys

    Jan, 2015 - Dec, 20183 years 10 months

    Fullstack Web Application Developer working on a variety of projects for Pilotech, a company that provides crisis management services. The work included development of web applications for internal use and for customers as well as mobile applications for iOS and Android.

    • Contributed to the development and delivery of web and mobile applications used for crisis management and operational coordination.

    • Worked closely with customers and internal stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

    • Collaborated with designers, developers and product stakeholders in a small cross-functional team.

    • Participated in the full software lifecycle including design, development, deployment and maintenance of production systems.

    • Helped modernize parts of the system by developing new services and applications using modern web technologies.

  • Software Developer, Team Lead, Sony Ericsson

    Sep, 2003 - Jun, 201511 years 9 months

    Mobile app developer

    • Developed a mobile web application using HTML5 and JavaScript. The tools and techniques used included Node, Knockout, Bower, Grunt, Require and WebStorm.

    • Developer in the multimedia department responsible for the Walkman application in Sony's Xperia phones. The team used agile methodologies from Kanban and Scrum. The tools used included Git, Repo, Gerrit, Jenkins and Eclipse.

    • Java and C developer, Sony Ericsson. Designed J2ME interfaces to the native music player. Lead programmer for the J2ME touch music application in Sony Ericsson's Aino phone. The work was done using Scrum.

    • Developer in the multimedia department at Sony Ericsson. Developed the native music application in C using tools like Visual Studio, Rational Clear Case and Rational Clear Quest. Team Leader for the music team and the last couple of years worked as lead developer.

  • Student, Sony Ericsson

    Jan, 2003 - Jun, 20035 months

    Mobile application for creating avatars. Mobile application written in C and a library generation part for PC written in Python.

Skills

Skills

  • Engineering Leadership

    Performance Reviews

    Agile/Scrum/Kanban

    Coaching & Mentorship

    Recruitment

    Resource Planning

    Stakeholder Management

  • Web Development

    HTML

    CSS

    Javascript

    Typescript

    Tailwind

    TAN stack query

    GatsbyJS

    Next.js

    React

  • Cloud & DevOps

    AWS

    Docker

    CI/CD

    GitHub Actions

  • Databases

    PostgreSQL

    MongoDB

    MySQL

Education

Education

  • Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, University of Lund

    Sep, 1998 - Jun, 2003

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Mentor, CoderDojo, Malmö

    Jan, 2016 - Jun, 2023

    After school teaching kids how to programme

  • Board Member, Housing cooperative Åsa, Malmö

    Jun, 2007 - Jun, 2014

    Three years as vice chairman and one year as chairman. The rest of the time as alternate member