Lead Developer

Futurice GmbH; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital transformation seeks a Lead Developer to serve as the technical bridge in projects. You'll guide a talented team while ensuring strong technical direction and client collaboration, with the opportunity to mentor, innovate, and impact strategic decisions.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model

Free choice of work gear

Sports and lunch benefit

Clubs for free-time activities

Learning events

Certification programs

Compensation discussions during recruitment

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Previous technical leadership experience, guiding architecture.
• Familiar with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Act as the responsible technical contact person within the project scope.
• Guide the development team and ensure architectural consistency.
• Oversee security and compliance requirements throughout the development lifecycle.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Software Development

Cloud Platforms

CI/CD Workflows

Security Practices

Communication

Education

7+ years of software development experience

Experience in technical leadership

Job description

Join us!

If you’re ready to start the next chapter in your career journey, you’ve come to the right place. We’re always happy to hear from people who are eager to learn and grow, and share our values. Read more about the role and apply.

About the role

As a Lead Developer at Futurice, you play a critical dual role: you are both a seasoned developer and the responsible technical contact within the project scope — bridging hands-on implementation with strategic decision-making.

You’ll guide the development team, ensure architectural consistency, and facilitate informed tech choices while keeping the bigger picture in view. You’ll work closely with clients and internal stakeholders to align solutions with their needs, provide clarity in complex situations, and represent the technical side of the project with confidence and integrity.

Your work will span mentoring and empowering your team, ensuring security and compliance standards are met, supporting sales opportunities, and helping our clients thrive in their digital transformation journey.

We offer a hybrid working model and flexible setup, but you should be based close to our Helsinki or Tampere office to enable effective collaboration.

Key responsibilities

In your role, you will:

• Act as the responsible technical contact person within the project scope — both internally and externally.
• Provide opinionated technical leadership tailored to the project and client context.
• Facilitate technology choices, architecture decisions, and ways of working that align with project goals and organizational standards.
• Ensure that security and compliance requirements are understood and fulfilled throughout the development lifecycle.
• Oversee and contribute to the creation of good-enough documentation to support onboarding, operations, and continuity (including updating relevant entries in Power).
• Identify and flag new sales opportunities and proactively communicate them to the Sales team.
• Provide technical support in sales cases, especially within your client relationships or specific industry domain.
• Strive to overcome technical and organizational challenges with creativity and resilience.
• Ensure the project team has the capabilities needed to succeed, and knows how to leverage Futurice’s internal resources and external partner networks effectively.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and openness.

Skills and requirements

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has 7+ years of hands-on software development experience, with a full-stack mindset and deep technical understanding.
• Has previous experience in a technical leadership or lead developer role, including guiding architecture and mentoring others.
• Is comfortable being the go-to person in client discussions for technical questions, trade-offs, and solutions.
• Understands cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and is well-versed in DevOps and modern CI/CD workflows.
• Has strong awareness of security practices, data privacy and regulatory compliance in software development.
• Communicates clearly and effectively — in English (Finnish is a plus) — and is skilled at breaking down complex topics.
• Is curious and opinionated, yet inclusive and pragmatic in guiding teams toward shared technical direction.
• Brings a consultative mindset and is motivated by solving real-world challenges together with clients.

Futurice offers you

Besides our overall cultural and organizational model, we support your growth as a professional. As an agency, we have a versatile portfolio of projects, and we solve different kinds of problems that require different kinds of tools. For you, this means the chance of a lifetime to pursue your learning goals and broaden your skill set. You will be inspired and supported throughout your journey, as our aspiration is to be the Ultimate Learning Platform for your career. On top of this, you get the opportunity to work with the most motivated and multi talented forces in development, design and strategy.

• In addition, we listed here some of the perks we offer:
• Futurice Hybrid Work Model
• Free choice of laptop, phone, tablet, headphones and other work gear
• Sports and lunch benefit
• Futurice's clubs for free-time activities
• Learning events
• Certification programs
• Compensation

Your complete compensation package will be discussed in detail during the recruitment process. Our salary model is designed to offer a range of levels based on three factors: skills, responsibilities and impact. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment where every employee has the opportunity to thrive and advance in their career and become better versions of themselves.

During the initial interview round, we will discuss the salary range for this position. We offer a fixed salary with the possibility of performance-based bonuses and additional benefits.

Next steps

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for and are ready to take the next step, please submit your application.

Our application form is about as easy as it gets. All you need to do is enter your contact information and upload your attachments. We’d love to see a CV, and a few lines about yourself and why you want to join Futurice. You can also submit links to your LinkedIn and/or GitHub profile or your portfolio, as well as share other attachments relevant to the application.

After we receive your application, we will reach out to you. Those selected for the interview phase can look forward to an initial discussion that will help us get to know you better, and you to get more info about life at Futurice. This is followed by an in-depth talk with your potential future colleagues to dive deeper into your professional skills. Finally, there’s a general chat to discuss things like your potential future projects. It is also worth mentioning that reference calls are an integral part of our recruitment process.

How we work

Ever since Futurice was founded, we’ve been committed to offering a workplace people will genuinely enjoy coming to every morning, Mondays included. We’ve put tons of effort into fostering a healthy and welcoming company culture combined with fair and competitive salaries as well as perks that improve the wellbeing of each Futuricean – take a look here to learn more, check our Culture handbook 2.0 and get to know some of our people through their career stories. Each of our offices also adds its own unique vibe and flavor into the mix. Learn more about our offices here!

At Futurice, new joiners are not expected to fit into a specific mold – people are free to come as they are, regardless of their background. We believe there’s power in perspectives and consider diversity an important part of our success. You can learn more about our DE&I commitment and efforts here.