Lead Developer

Reaktor Group konserni; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-spec computer and phone

Unlimited phone plan

Monthly lunch benefit

Tax-free recreational benefit

Extensive occupational healthcare

Family support

Extensive insurance package

Compensation for open source projects

Job summary

A leading tech community in Helsinki seeks a skilled Lead Developer to handle full software development lifecycle tasks. Responsibilities include being the primary contact for clients, implementing features across systems, and improving team workflows. Ideal candidates have at least eight years of relevant experience, a solid understanding of agile principles, and leadership skills. An emphasis on collaboration and a healthy work-life balance is critical. This role supports hybrid work arrangements and offers numerous perks for well-being.

Qualifications

• Minimum eight years of relevant work experience.
• Solid understanding of agile principles.
• Previous experience in team leadership and consulting.

Responsibilities

• Be the first contact for the client on technical questions.
• Facilitate collaboration between client and team.
• Implement new features requiring changes to systems.

Skills

Experience with back end, front end, and ops

Agile project management

Team-lead and consulting experience

Problem-solving with client stakeholders

Database management (e.g., PostgreSQL)

Job description

Our award-winning tech community is looking for lead developers to join us in Helsinki.

As a lead developer at Reaktor, your job is to work with the full software development lifecycle, help your team succeed, and deliver results

Your daily tasks include:

• Being the first point of contact for the client when it comes to technical questions or the quality of the delivery
• Working together with the client’s tech and business teams: facilitating collaboration between different stakeholders to ensure quality delivery
• Implementing new features that require changes to front-end applications, back-end servers, and/or databases, knowing what is needed from infrastructure to support the team's work
• Improving the team's ways of working by empowering them to discover optimal workflows and enabling a healthy work-life balance among team members
• Building relationships with the client to ensure future collaboration
• Assisting the team in adopting and following agile practices

You are an experienced developer who enjoys facing technical challenges and is at home providing clarity in ambiguous situations

To thrive in this position, you’ll need:

• Experience on a broad spectrum (back end, front end, and ops). Usually, to be successful in this role at Reaktor, we've noticed it's good to have a minimum of eight years of relevant work experience
• Solid understanding and experience of agile project management principles
• Both previous team-lead and consulting experience
• Experience working with several client stakeholders to solve complex problems
• Relevant skills to create new backend services and tweak CI/CD pipelines when the project requires
• Know-how on databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
• Willingness to work in a hybrid setup, where you work with your team at the office or at the client premises
• For two decades, we’ve been developing qualities and capabilities for adapting, reacting, and supporting change – building Reaktor to hold up in a fast-paced environment while ensuring the well-being of our people.

While working at Reaktor, we’ll provide you with:

• To be able to impact how you work. Together with the client, your team chooses the approach, technologies, and methodologies you think will work best in any given situation
• A community with as much support as your heart desires
• A team that’s not only experienced but considerate as well – they all want you to succeed
• A sustainable work-life balance and support for your daily life outside of work. (e.g., free moving day, Reaktor car share, sick child care services, office space to use for your private events, etc.)
• An opportunity to grow as a professional. In addition to the day-to-day work, we offer internal training courses, community events, and 15-minute coffee breaks to discuss hot topics in tech and design
• A possibility to take part in more extended academy-like studies like Cloud Academy.
• 300+ hobby clubs, from winter swimming and running to knitting and archery, that bring people together outside of (and sometimes inside) office hours. Many of these are supported by Reaktor

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Together, we are committed to making Reaktor an environment that embraces and values all of our employees for the whole of who they are. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply, knowing that studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they fully satisfy all of the requirements. If you're thinking twice about applying for this reason, we invite you to send us your application anyway. You could be just the person we're looking for.

Interested? Drop us a line via the form below. We'll be happy to hear from you!

At Reaktor Helsinki, our benefits and perks evolve with our community, and we’re always open to new ideas that will support the wellbeing of Reaktorians. Currently, we offer the following perks:

Tools

We offer everyone a top-spec computer and a phone of their choosing to work with and use at work and home. If you need other tools, like a keyboard or a mouse, we'll figure it out, too!

Phone & internet

To keep you connected, we’ll cover an unlimited phone plan – and a proper internet connection to your home.

We offer the monthly lunch benefit in addition to your salary, which means you only pay the taxes.

Recreational benefit (sports & culture)

At Reaktor, the recreational benefit is an addition to your salary – and it’s tax-free.

If you want one, we offer an optional commuting benefit card and a bicycle benefit.

Extensive occupational healthcare

Extensive occupational health care services include specialists’ appointments, operations, vaccinations, dental care, and mental health services, including e.g. psychotherapy.

Family support

We support all types of families with encouraging types of parental leave and more, offering support for child care.

An extensive insurance package

Our extensive insurance package safeguards you for accidents, travel, and more.

Our subsidized massage deals keep those shoulders nice and loose.

The Juice-program enables you to work on open source projects – and get compensated for it!

We’re an equal opportunity employer

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

FAQ

01 What are we looking for?

We believe there’s more that matters than just the resume. We’re looking for an exciting overlap of curiosity, creativity, people skills, and experience: people who are willing to learn, participate, and share new perspectives.

02 What does the hiring process look like?

We take the time to learn about your skills and aspirations and help you learn about ours. Our interview process usually involves three or four conversations over the course of a few weeks. From application to closing, our process takes about four weeks. Your recruiter will keep you up to date on what to expect from each stage of our interviewing process.

03 What kinds of projects do you have?

We do a variety of different kinds of projects, with the aim of each being meaningful and critical to a client’s business. Our typical engagements are from 6 months to 18 months and involve between 3-6 Reaktorians collaborating closely with our clients. When it comes to picking and choosing, we look at a number of things from the business side. For example, we tend to be interested in the multi-functional growth potential of the project as well as the technological and digital maturity of the client, their product, and the project overall. However, not all good business is a good fit for us culturally. We only take on new business that aligns with our values, is interesting for our people to work on, and has a great local or global impact.

The core idea behind how we staff is that you will never be alone in a project. When staffing our projects, we first start by going through your preferences and ambitions for learning, be it customer location, the field of business, or some particular technology. We then go through your learning and self-development targets and do our best to match all of the above to a project. We get multiple projects and new openings in existing projects each month. If there isn’t a perfect fit immediately, we try to find a spot for you in an existing project or take some time while you work on internal projects, or get deeper into onboarding.

05 What do people do in between projects?

Client work is our number one priority, but we’ve gotten pretty good at making the most out of the normal in-between time in the consulting business. Maybe you’ve just joined us, your project has just ended, or you’re rotating out of one and looking for new opportunities, it can sometimes take a while to find the next client project. These are great opportunities to take training, dive into a new topic, or help out with internal development. Your time in between projects does not affect your pay.

06 Is it ok to work remotely?

It depends on the project in question, as we choose the option that fits best with each client. Sometimes projects are multisite, at other times, there are more on-site visits, and on rather rare occasions, we are 100% remote. That said, we love to see each other every once in a while and spend time together at get-togethers and occasional in-person meetings.