Would you like to work on impactful backend projects in a work environment built to support your professional development? As a Senior Backend Developer at Nitor, you'll work with our clients' core infrastructure and systems, building solutions that businesses can rely on.
🧑🚀 Brief Description of Your Work
As a Senior Backend Developer at Nitor, you participate in designing and implementing our clients' system architecture and integrations. A significant part of your role is integrating our clients' business focus into the code you write. It's important that the solutions you build combine performance, cost-effectiveness, and beautifully simple, maintainable code.
Your tools include, depending on the client project, Java, Node.js, Kotlin, C#, Python, REST, databases, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP), various testing frameworks, and CI/CD tools. Sometimes you'll also get to utilize your possible functional programming skills, for example with Clojure.
We apply test automation, continuous delivery, and other agile development methods following the DevOps model. However, more important than following any single tool is independent thinking and a pragmatic approach to applying proven practices.
More Concrete
Our client projects are typically challenging yet professionally rewarding entities that offer experienced backend developers the opportunity to both leverage and deepen their expertise. Project duration is often from one to several years depending on your own preferences. In most projects, you work as part of the client's development team alongside other experienced Nitorians.
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🤝 We Continuously Develop Our Backend Expertise
We have experience implementing significant, technically demanding backend systems. Our client satisfaction is top-notch, and we continuously develop our operations.
Our gaze is firmly on the future. When you become our colleague, we believe it will take us another step forward – while we look for assignments that support your career and are technically interesting. With us, you get to create the kind of work life you envision, influencing our shared future.
Your future developer colleagues value high technical expertise, continuous learning, and a genuine desire to do quality work for clients. If the pieces fall into place, you'll complete this group just as you are.
✅ What Could You Bring With You?
You'll excel in this role when you have a deep understanding of how modern backend systems work and are built, and how system architecture and infrastructure solutions support business needs.
To act as a value-adding expert in client projects, you have several years of experience in backend development as well as architecture and infrastructure solutions.
You have strong expertise in multiple programming languages. Java, Kotlin, Node.js, or C# are typically used in our client projects. Additionally, you have database and cloud technology expertise (AWS, Azure, or GCP) as well as experience with various testing frameworks and CI/CD tools.
Since backend developer work requires close collaboration with various stakeholders, we value a consultative and client-focused mindset. You need to understand the client's business needs and be able to communicate about technical solutions to both development teams and business management.
Fluent Finnish and English language skills are important, as we have clients both domestically and internationally.
The more diverse experience you have, the more opportunities it opens right from the start. However, we don't want to define too precisely what you should be like – the pieces can fall into place in so many ways.
🏆 What If You Choose Us?
We believe that recruitment isn't about a company choosing a new employee. You ultimately make the choice. And we can help you with that.
You should contact us if:
You want to work with meaningful, long-term client relationships instead of jumping from project to project
Skilled colleagues working alongside you, excellent development opportunities, and optimal working conditions are important to you
You feel that community spirit and wishing colleagues well are meaningful values in work life
You're ok with working normal hours and ensuring that free time and work stay balanced
You want to build robust backend systems that businesses can rely on
Your work and daily life are also supported by our diverse benefits and opportunities, for example:
You can use 10% of your work time for professional development
€7,100 "Hardware Bank" for equipment and home office purchases, replenished monthly
Full paid vacation days from the start of employment regardless of start date
€100-2,000 bonus for each certification you complete
Shared trips, events, and hobby groups from running club to board game club
⭐ Would You Like to Talk With Us More About What We Could Offer You?
Join now the group of experienced developers, architects, and designers working in a creative and bureaucracy-free work culture, where we also support Open Source project work during work hours.
We would be really interested to hear more about you. Tell us what kind of step you're taking in your career, and let's see how we could help you.
❓ Do You Have Questions? Is Something on Your Mind?
Send us your LinkedIn profile or CV, and let's talk more about what Nitor could enable for you. You can also ask for more information from our People Partner Ella Raskila (ella.raskila@nitor.com). We want to make sure you get all the information you need to make this important decision.
👥 We Listen to You
We want to offer our experts the best possible workplace and support the development of your expertise. At Nitor, it's precisely you, your unique skills, and personal interests that determine the direction of your career.
Fascinating backend projects, our natural curiosity, and your colleagues' support motivate you in continuous learning. You participate in interesting training sessions, events, and conferences. Additionally, you can use part of your work time for learning new things, developing our community, and inspiring pro bono projects.
With us, your career path isn't predetermined – on the contrary, we encourage you to explore your interests without unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy. At Nitor, your voice is heard.
Our way of working is based on trust, openness, and respect for each other. Every Nitorian brings their own contribution to the company's operations. We value and cherish diversity and the added value it brings to our clients.
🎯 Briefly About Nitor – Hopefully Your Future Workplace Too
Every Nitorian is a digital engineer; a pragmatic and solution-focused team player who doesn't settle for assumptions. What's characteristic of us is really high professional skill and pride in both our own and our colleagues' work.
Our 250+ experts operate in Helsinki, Tampere, and Stockholm, combining their diverse expertise to achieve meaningful impact. We're proud of our employee-centric culture and genuine commitment to our people's growth – in recognition of this, we've been awarded the Great Place to Work certification and selected as Finland's most attractive employer brand.
Our vision is clear: to be the industry's most desired workplace, where success comes from employee and client well-being and satisfaction. We continue our growth as a leader in IT industry client satisfaction, producing excellent added value for our clients (read how our unique client experience fuels our growth).
