Senior IT Developer

Nordea; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea is seeking a Senior Lead Developer to join the Service Domain Fraud Technology within Group Technology in Helsinki. You will lead technical teams, translate architectures into robust designs, and drive excellence in a high-availability, distributed environment.

The role focuses on collaboration with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Analysts to refine epics, align business goals with technical execution, and advance fraud prevention capabilities across the bank.

Qualifications

• Senior leader with experience building scalable, high-concurrency distributed systems.
• Experience with architecture and compliance requirements.
• Hands-on with Spring Boot, Kafka, Hadoop and SQL.
• Knowledge of Cloud environments and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Acting as a Lead/Senior Developer within the Financial Crime Prevention domain, driving technical excellence and innovation
• Leading technical teams by setting high development standards, implementing industry best practices, and mentoring other developers
• Collaborating closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Analysts
• Refining epics and user stories, ensuring clear alignment between business goals and technical execution
• Translating solution architecture into robust technical designs and high-quality software
• Advising on the selection of tools, technologies, and processes to optimize development within the Fraud area

Skills

Leadership

Senior mindset

Integration patterns

APIs & REST

DDDs

Event Sourcing

Microservices

CI/CD

Testing & profiling

AI tools

Tools

Spring Boot

Kafka

Hadoop

SQL

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job ID: 4883 Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy. We are looking for a senior lead developer to join our team on a full time employment agreement.

Nordea is a place where traditions meet tomorrow. We’re not just a bank; we’re a tech employer on a mission to evolve finance securely and responsibly. Together, we impact millions of people’s daily lives by ensuring they can access our solutions anytime, anywhere, while safeguarding their personal data and wealth. Join us in making an impact on the banking industry.

About Our Team

Meet the Service Domain Fraud Technology. We are part of the Service Area Financial Crime Technology. We are a fairly large team with a mix of people from different backgrounds and with different skills, with one thing in common; to excel in providing tools, applications and IT-development to prevent the bank and our customer to fall victim of fraud.

Main responsibilities in this role includes

• Acting as a Lead/Senior Developer within the Financial Crime Prevention domain, driving technical excellence and innovation
• Leading technical teams by setting high development standards, implementing industry best practices, and mentoring other developers
• Collaborating closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Analyst
• Refining epics and user stories, ensuring clear alignment between business goals and technical execution
• Translating solution architecture into robust technical designs and high-quality, working software
• Advising on the selection of tools, technologies, and processes to optimize development within the Fraud area

Who You Are

• Strong leadership & communication: Proven ability to facilitate technical meetings, lead and coach developers, and communicate effectively across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Senior mindset: Senior-level experience in building scalable, high-concurrency, and distributed systems with a focus on high availability and throughput.
• Ability to lead implementation of an architecture and compliance requirements

This is the right role for you if have

• Good knowledge of Integration Patterns, APIs and RESTFul API Design, deep hands‑on experience with Spring Boot, Kafka, Hadoop and SQL
• Architecture & Patterns: Practical expertise in Domain‑Driven Design (DDD), Event Sourcing, Microservices architecture, and Clean Code principles
• Cloud & Modern Tooling: Hands‑on experience with Cloud platforms integrations and a solid understanding of CI/CD (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Good understanding of automated and unit testing, code profiling and performance testing
• Practical knowledge of using AI tools and LLMs to enhance development workflows or integrate intelligent features into products

It would be ideal if you also have

• Knowledge of Software Security, TDD, and Junit
• Experience in banking or financial crime prevention sector

What We Offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

People are driven by many different factors. 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.

Next steps

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:

• Preliminary CV selection
• Phone conversation with the hiring leader or recruiter
• Online interview with the hiring leader
• Background checks

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.