Senior Software Developer

Finnair is a diverse community of professionals who work ambitiously with a big heart and commitment. A strong safety culture is our priority and at the core of our everyday work, never taking it for granted. We are committed to doing our share in solving the climate challenge by determinedly following our science-based pathway to decarbonize our operations. We find meaning in our purpose: to enrich lives by bridging the world, and our identity and service mindset stems from our iconic brand’s Nordic heritage. Our values – Commitment to care, Working Together, Simplicity and Courage – guide us in everything we do.

We are now looking for a skilled

(SENIOR) SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

to join the team responsible for Finnair.com and support our endeavour for developing the biggest Finnish eCommerce site.

Finnair.com team includes a total of 5 cross-functional Squads contaning designers, developers and QA supported by scrum masters and data scientists. Finnair.com team itself is part of growing unit of 100+ people, who own and are fully responsible for developing Finnair´s digital platform and our digital customer experience. Together this unit is responsible of Finnair’s mobile app, finnair.com, payment platforms and our inflight entertainment system (=the one that you can enjoy in our wide body airplanes).

Ways of working:

Our environment is start-up like, dynamic and development-oriented and our work roughly follows Scrum and Kanban, in two-week iterations. We are moving forward with sustainable phase, and the expectation is to build product with excellent code base and customer experience. In practical level we do have both time and skills to meet expectations and deliver excellent quality.  

From the business-side we are closely working together with a Product Owners as well as with various individuals from business to customer experience. We strive constantly to be more data-driven and customer oriented in our goal setting. We approach solutions experimentally and evaluate the impact routinely with quantitative metrics supported by A/B testing combined with qualitative insights from research activities. 

From technology side we are all in with AWS and Squads are also responsible of owning features and services built, and we do have routines, tools and effort in place to monitor production and continuously evolve quality of our services.

Technical stack:

• Frontend: Angular 17 (moving to 19), TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SaSS

• Backend: AWS, CDK, Micro-services, Docker, Node.js, TypeScript, Java, Spring

• CI/CD and test automation: CodeBuild & CodePipeline, Playwright, Junit, Jest

• Monitoring: AWS Cloudwatch, Datadog, Sentry

Things that we are especially proud and excited about:

• Getting to create the biggest ecommerce service platform in Finland

• Possibility to have an impact over the product roadmap and choose our own tools

• Chance to work with aviation industry experts

• Shared eagerness to develop our ways of working

• Flat organization – possibility to get heard and impact how our products work

• Companywide growth mindset

In order to succeed in this role:

We expect you to have an excellent grip of relevant modern programming techniques ideally with a high-quality product. In addition to this, you are interested in working in an agile team that is fully responsible for creating and operating well-designed and lovable digital experiences for our customers.

We are very much interested in welcoming you to the team, if you are either already skilled in working full-stack or strong on the front- or backend side but having intention to widening your skills and contribution area.

Working at Finnair:

We offer you an exciting opportunity to work in the fast-changing aviation and international travel industry in a culture that drives and enables professional development and continuous improvement. You will be supported by internally highly rated supervisory work with modern leadership practices that we constantly develop.

We are happy to enable our employees to enrich their lives and fulfill their travel dreams by offering a wi