Senior Java Developer

Skills & Requirements

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Are you a Full-Stack Java developer who feels the meaning in developing early childhood education services? If so, join our Futucare team of talented developers and an impactful project to start your journey at Futurice!

Meet the team - Futucare

Futucare is Futurice’s model for ensuring continuity, support and small feature development of in-production systems. It offers a 360 view to projects, technologies and architectural solutions developed by Futurice’s highly skilled teams in recent years. Our Futucare team provides high-quality continuous services to our clients, far above and beyond traditional reactive software maintenance. We have over 35 experts working with Futucare's services. This team is splitted into multiple smaller teams. Each team is responsible for a dedicated set of projects/accounts for which they do small feature development ensuring reliably running and continuously developing services. Check our Futucare site to learn more about it!

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior full-stack Java developer, your responsibility is to create high-quality solutions that bring value in the areas our clients benefit the most and that way be part of creating long-lasting relationships with our clients. For example, we have worked on projects like the world’s first online service helping people make better choices, together with the City of Helsinki, which impact hundreds of thousands of citizens' daily life. Take a look at what we do and what else we've done. As Markus, a fellow Futuricean, put it: “ It’s about creating solutions that bring value and all the team members play a part in that. That combined with the flexibility and freedom provided by the Futurice culture really gives me the ability to craft my days and project practicalities to fit my needs.”

We also have your very first project in mind in the field of early childhood education! With the City of Helsinki, we have created Asti service to make enrolling in early childhood education, pre-primary education and basic education easier. The project also offered an opportunity to improve the accessibility and equality of services offered by the Education Division. Asti helps implement the city’s strategy of becoming the world’s best and most equal place to learn. In this project you get to work with a large multidisciplinary team to build the service and maintain it together with the team.

At Futurice, we firmly believe in continuous learning and support our people’s personal and professional growth. As a part of our team, you are also able to learn new technologies and gain experience in different environments to widen your tech toolbox and learn the best practices and ways of working. Furthermore you gain understanding from various different client organizations, their businesses, needs & ways of working to become a trusted advisor towards the clients. You will not only help maintain and improve existing services, but later on also plan and implement new ones.

What would help you to succeed in this role?

We hope you have some experience of one or more of these listed topics:

• Java Spring Boot is your cup of tea and you have miles on it working with related projects.

• You embrace a full-stack mindset, and like working with web development frameworks like React and such.

• You know your way around REST APIs, web backends, continuous integration, test automation, continuous deployment, databases and so on. Idea of working as a member of a DevOps team does not scare you.

• Curiosity to develop your skills further with data or cloud services, eg. AWS or Azure is welcomed. We are happy to help you with this with our vast certification program.

• We hope that good communication both with the team and the client is something you cherish dearly. Usually we look for people with fluent English, but this time especially fluent Finnish is something we value.

We consider as a plus

• Knowledge of React and/or TypeScript

Futurice offers you

Besides our overall cultural and organisational model, we support your growth as a professional. As an agency, we have a versatile portfolio of projects and we solve different kinds of problems that require different kinds of tools – for you this means the chance of a lifetime to follow your learning goals and broaden your skill set. You will be inspired and supported throughout your journey as our aspiration is to be the Ultimate Learning Platform for your career. On top of this you get the opportunity to work with the most motivated and multi talented forces in development, design and strategy. The position can be located in Tampere or Helsinki, and whereas we work in a very flexible hybrid mode, the nice atmosphere at our offices easily makes one’s day!

In addition we listed here some of the perks we offer:

• Flexible working hours

• Futurice Hybrid Work Model

• Personal IT budget

• Free choice of laptop, phone, tablet, headphones and other work-gear

• Sports and lunch benefit

• Futurice's clubs for free-time activities

• Learning events

• Certification programs

• Social responsibility program

• You can give back to the community and receive sponsorship from Futurice for doing open-source projects in your free time.

• FutuHike: Work in another office for a week

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Next steps

Does this sound like the opportunity you’ve been looking for? If yes, that’s great news – please head on over to the next phase and submit your application.

Our application form is about as easy as it gets, just enter your contact information and upload your attachments. We’re hoping to see at least your CV and a few lines about yourself and why you want to join Futurice (for inspiration, take a look here to read our tips on how to stand out from the other applicants). You’ll also have the option to submit links to your LinkedIn and/or GitHub profile or your portfolio, as well as share other attachments relevant to the application.

We will process the applications in the order of their arrival. Those selected for the interview phase can look forward to an initial discussion, both in order for us to get to know you better, and for you to get more familiar with life at Futurice. That will be followed by an in-depth talk with your potential future colleagues to dive deeper into your professional skills, and finally, one more general chat where you’ll discuss things like your potential future projects.

Working at Futurice

Ever since Futurice was founded, we’ve been committed to offering a workplace people will genuinely enjoy coming to every morning, Mondays included. We’ve put tons of effort into fostering a healthy and welcoming company culture combined with fair and competitive salaries as well as perks that improve the wellbeing of each Futuricean – take a look here, check our Culture Handbook 2.0 and learn more about some of our people through their career stories. Each of our offices also adds its own unique vibe and flavor into the mix. Learn more about our offices here!

At Futurice, new joiners are not expected to fit into a specific mold – people are free to come as they are, regardless of their background. We believe there’s power in perspectives and consider diversity an important part of our success – which is why we have made diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) a key component of our company’s strategy. You can learn more about our DE&I commitment and efforts here.