Senior Fullstack Engineer (~80 - 90 k/y, Helsinki-FI, HYBRID)
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We're looking for a Senior Full-stack Engineer with strong backend and infrastructure skills who takes ownership and ships with confidence. In this project you'll be focusing on Loyalty Personalised Content for over 2,5 million users/members. The team owns three systems that focuses on ML-driven recommendations, promotional content and custom CMS for managing promo content. Experience of working with large databases and data-based recommendations is a great benefit.
What you'll do:
- Design and maintain REST APIs that deliver personalised content to downstream services, especially mobile
- Build and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform – containerised workloads, monitoring, CI/CD
- Develop the content orchestration service and integrate recommendations from the Loyalty ML & AI team
- Collaborate across teams on API contracts, data flows, and integration points
What we're looking for:
- Stack: TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Docker, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Kafka
- Product thinking: wants to shape what we build, not just how.
- 10+ years in software engineering, weighted toward backend systems.
- Production experience with TypeScript and REST API design.
- Deep AWS knowledge and hands-on IaC experience, preferably Terraform.
- Solid Docker and containerisation skills.
- Experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL
Especially valuable is:
- OpenSearch / Elasticsearch experience.
- Experience working with Kafka streams.
- An eye for data engineering or machine learning – not a pro, but someone who spots ways the team's data can augment our services.
- Observability and monitoring know-how.
Basic info:
- Start: asap
- Location: Helsinki office 3 days/week
- Team: PO, Technical PO, Lead Engineer, Senior Full-Stack Engineers
- Allocation: 100%
- Industry: retail
Further info: Jari Viitanen, jari.viitanen()kontraktori.fi

