Backend Developer VEIKKAUS / Helsinki

PUBLISHED: January 29, 2025

Veikkaus creates joy through games and protects it. We want to make sure that gambling stays on the joyful side. All our actions are guided by sustainability. We want to be a trailblazer in the gaming industry, and a trendsetter of a responsible player experience. Wellbeing is our passion. It is important that our employees enjoy coming to work every day. We offer versatile and extensive employee benefits. With us, you get to do work that makes a difference, in a spirited work community that is constantly developing. Let’s work together – to keep gambling on the joyful side.

Backend Developer

We are looking for a Backend Developer for a team with friendly, easy-going and cheerful individuals. The position is permanent and full-time.

You will be working in Player Management team at Gaming Product Development unit which is a forerunner in applying new technologies and creating excellent digital services for our customers. Your team will be working with continuous product development with modern techniques, pushing others and yourself to succeed and broaden their skillset. At Veikkaus development teams do not only create code but they also design, create, implement and maintain the systems from the very beginning.

Focus in this role is in customer information system and microservices – including session handling and strong identification – around it using Scrum framework. Veikkaus has 2,5 million customers who use our services over a million times a week. As a developer you’re responsible for the future of those services as well as designing and implementing new systems.

Team is highly experienced and it values team skills such as communication, listening, problem solving and critical thinking. We are serious about team work, quality and modern technologies but take almost nothing that seriously. Team motto is Ask and you shall be answered to.

We would love to hear from you if you are:

  • All about teamwork
  • Eager to improve and enhance your skills in a tech or in a team
  •  Have min. 6 years of experience with:
    o    JVM programming languages such as Java and/or Kotlin
    o    AWS Cloud such as EKS, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda
  • Basic understanding of GDPR requirements
  • Proficient to work with English language

We offer: 

  • Benefits of a large company
  • Relaxed atmosphere and awesome co-workers in self-driven teams
  • Possibility and active encouragement to broaden your skillset, according to your interests and strengths
  • Exceptionally large slate of benefits including support for sports & cultural activities, health and dental plans, free glasses, gym, free breakfast at the office and nearly endless amount of coffee and healthy fruits offered daily!
  • Flexible ways of working with possibility to balance work and free time, making remote working an agile and practical alternative. We are working in hybrid model and our office is at Pohjois-Haaga in Helsinki.

You can read more about us, our employment benefits, and our work culture here.

Please note that the position requires for non-EU citizens, a valid residence permit.

Interested? Awesome! Please send your application with a CV and salary request included no later than the 23rd of February, 2025. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

For any inquiries about the position please contact Development Team Manager Petri Raevuori via e-mail (firstname.lastname@veikkaus.fi) or phone +358 9 4370 2227.

Veikkaus as a company will perform a drug test and security clearance check (According to the Act on Security Clearance (726/2014)) to the person selected for the position.

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