Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead (Finland) - Hands-on

Academic Work Finland Oy; Uusimaa; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Academic Work Finland Oy is seeking a Senior Engineer in Finland to bridge hands-on coding and technical leadership. You will mentor a growing team and act as local engineering lead, delivering a scalable B2B platform with product and leadership stakeholders.

You will stay deeply technical while driving execution, building modern solutions, and shaping engineering practices with AI-driven workflows, aiming for high ownership, collaboration, and meaningful impact.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of GCP and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience in backend or fullstack development.
• Proficiency with containers and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience mentoring developers or leading technical teams.
• Fluent English and strong cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support an engineering team onsite in Finland.
• Hands-on in architecture, system design, and software development.
• Establish engineering practices, ways of working, and team culture.
• Mentor and coach developers through technical guidance.
• Partner with Product and Design to deliver business impact across Sweden and Finland.
• Improve development workflows, tooling, automation, and efficiency.
• Build and operate scalable systems using GCP and containerized tech.

Skills

GCP

Cloud-native

Backend/Fullstack

Containers

CI/CD

Mentoring

English

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Academic Work Finland Oy is seeking a Senior Engineer in Finland to bridge hands-on coding and technical leadership. You will mentor a growing team and act as local engineering lead, delivering a scalable B2B platform with product and leadership stakeholders.

You will stay deeply technical while driving execution, building modern solutions, and shaping engineering practices with AI-driven workflows, aiming for high ownership, collaboration, and meaningful impact.