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Max König

Max König

Engineering Manager

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

Background


About

About

Manager with 20+ years in software development and 3+ years in people leadership. Experienced in building and leading high-performing engineering teams, driving delivery, coaching developers, and collaborating with product and business stakeholders. Strong technical foundation across embedded, mobile and web development, combined with a people-centric and pragmatic leadership style.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Regional Manager (formerly Tedsys)Knightec Group

    Jan, 2025 - Present

    Responsible for the software department at Knightec Group in Malmö, leading several teams of around 40 software consultants.

    • Sales and customer relations

    • Recruiting consultants according to market needs

    • Budgeting and results

    • Coaching team leads and consultants

    • Salary setting and performance reviews

  • 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

    Description…

    • Build a Mortage application site in Gatsby JS

    • Build a home energy improvement application in Next JS.

    • Build a mortage application backend in Python.

  • Software DeveloperTedsys

    Jan, 2015 - Dec, 20183 years 10 months

    Software Developer Consultant

  • 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.

    • ava 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

    Mentorship

    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