🧑‍🚀 Your future role

As a Backend Developer at Nitor, you work with our customers' core systems and infrastructure. You take part in designing and implementing system architecture and integrations. Merging our customers' business focus into the code you write is vital - it is essential that the solutions you build embody performance, cost-effectiveness, and a simple yet beautiful, sustainable code. 

Depending on the customer project, your tools usually consist of Java, Node.js, Python, REST, databases, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP), various testing frameworks, and CI/CD tools. You may also utilise your possible functional programming skills, e.g., with Clojure. We apply the DevOps model in our work and use test automation, continuous delivery, and other agile development methods. 

Our customer projects are typically challenging yet professionally rewarding. The projects offer an experienced program developer the possibility to utilise and deepen their know-how. The duration of the projects usually ranges between one year and multiple years, depending on your preferences. In most projects, you will be a member of the customer's development team together with other experienced Nitoreans.

âś… What makes you successful as a Backend Developer at Nitor?

  • You possess multiple years of experience in backend development as well as in architecture and infrastructure solutions, allowing you to work in your customer projects as a value-adding expert.

  • You have solid expertise in various programming languages. Java, Node.js, and Python are often used in our customer projects. 

  • You have experience with the following technologies: REST, databases, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP), different testing frameworks, and CI/CD tools.

  • You possess a consultative and customer-centric mindset

🏆 Why should you choose Nitor? 

A set of benefits that makes a difference

In addition to meaningful projects and customised possibilities for professional development, we offer you a profound set of employee benefits. Nitor is built in a way that it can support your career development, sustainable work pace, and well-being.

Here are some examples of our employee benefits: 

  • You can use 10% of your work time for your professional development however you choose, and your employer will support it.

  • Would you like to participate in an exciting event in your field? You can use up to five workdays a year for training or conference trips anywhere in the world.

  • You will have your personal, monthly updated "iron bank" consisting of 7.100€ which you can freely use to acquire preferred work tools and home office supplies.

  • You will get full holidays from the beginning of your employment, no matter what time of the year you start.

  • Full culture and sports benefits, massage benefit, and commuting and bicycle benefits

  • A 500-2000€ bonus for each professional certificate you complete

  • An extensive set of health benefits with health insurance, covering special healthcare, dental care, and psychological support, among others

  • We cherish our sense of community with our yearly employee trips (we have been, e.g., to Pisa, Berlin, Vienna, Edinburgh, and Dubrovnik, as well as the skiing centers of the North), seasonal events, and weekly get-togethers and breakfasts. You're welcome to join our running club, wine tasting, movie nights, HIIT training, or board game club, among others! 

  • Our way of working is grounded in trust, openness, and mutual respect; each Nitorean brings their unique quality to the company. We value and cherish our differences and the added value this brings to our customers.

About your future employer

Nitor is a digital engineering company founded in 2007 and has over 220 builders of the future working for it. Each Nitorean is a digital engineer; a pragmatic and solution-oriented team player who does not settle for assumptions. Extremely high expertise and pride for our own and our colleagues' work are things we all have in common. We work with the largest enterprises in Finland, helping them succeed in building a better digital world. 

Our growth is solid; for example, our turnover grew by 8,2% in 2021. In 2022, Onway's research gave us the best place for customer satisfaction in the IT sector for the tenth time. In addition, our employees continuously report exceptionally high satisfaction with Nitor as an employer. Middle management, micro-management, and repetitive and minimally impactful customer projects are things you cannot find here. At Nitor, you can trust us to take care of everything else, allowing you to focus entirely on your work. 

🏖 Nitor's recruitment process 

Our recruitment process reflects our values and is a clear dialogue with four stages. You will have the possibility to meet at least four Nitoreans during the process. We offer you everything you need to know when deciding on your next workplace.

1. Get to know Nitor: We map what is most important to you in your career. Our People Partner will tell you about Nitor, our projects, and what your work at Nitor could look like. 

2. Technical interview: You will meet two of our software developers, who will form an understanding of the strengths and extent of your expertise. You will also gain first-hand knowledge of our projects and Nitor as an employer. 

 3. Open questions: We double-check that you have all the answers to your possible questions. We specify your future role at Nitor and prepare the basis for your upcoming job offer. 

4. Presenting the offer

Sounds promising? Do you want to be a part of enabling a code with a lifetime warranty? Submit your application and let's talk more!

Please note that you will need to be authorized to work in Finland or Sweden in order to proceed in our recruitment process.