Senior Developer, Life Tech (with strong AWS experience)

At OP Insurance domain we are starting something big: a large platform transformation program that will support our business in the future. This has an effect on our OP Life Tech team, as we will move to a new technology platform and make significant customer experience and process efficiency changes to our services. For this reason, we are now looking for a Senior Developer with strong experience from AWS to join our team! This position is permanent and located in Helsinki. Like the rest of OP, we work flexibly, combining both office days and remote work. 

What is the team and the role like?

Our OP Life Tech team is developing OP Life Assurance’s digital services, especially focusing on customer’s (both corporate and private customers) self-service channels. In practice we are building a new digital sales engine for life insurance business within op.fi portals. This development work will strengthen the customer experience when customer’s specific needs are taken more into account.

As a Senior Developer, you will participate strongly to the software development work our team is doing. You get to build new software, in a skilled team with rather modern technologies. Your work is important to build frictionless customer experiences for the largest financial organization in Finland. 

Besides hands on software development, you also get to participate in technology and architectural discussions and design? with our IT architects and Tech Leads. As you will work in a Senior role, we expect you are willing to share your expertise and knowledge also to the other members of the team.

What are we looking for? 

We are listing below core elements and skills we believe will be needed for you in this role: 
•    strong experience from public cloud infrastructure (AWS).
•    ability to participate in technology and architectural discussions with IT architects and tech leads
•    comprehensive understanding of Java and Java based web development frameworks such as Spring Boot.
•    experience with frontend technologies such as HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript and preferably ReactJS framework.
•    Rest APIs.
•    setting up and modifying software automation and CI/CD pipelines 
•    communication skills in English are a must, fluency in Finnish is seen as an advantage.

What is the catch, then? 

It wouldn’t be fair if we had nothing to offer you. You will enjoy a wide range of staff benefits, including a personnel fund and special terms for employee banking, insurance and loan services. We offer comprehensive occupational health care, extensive medical treatment expenses insurance and a full-time group accident insurance policy. We invest in wellbeing at work by encouraging a good work-life balance, providing flexibility in your daily life, and offering lunch, sport and cultural benefits and opportunities for affordable holidays in OP timeshares.

We also encourage and help you to further develop yourself as a technical professional. We have the so called “70/20/10 rule” in use, which means you will use 70% of your time for your daily tasks, 20% to develop the way you do those tasks, and the last 10% is reserved for you to learn and try new things. You will also have our OP Software Academy at your disposal in case you are interested in learning new technologies or methodologies, or why not in honing your skills in your current stack. 

Did we spark your interest? 

Great, we can’t wait to hear from you! The application period is open until 2.4.2023 so now it is your time to shine! Do you have some questions related to the role in your mind? Mikko Kiiski (Competence Lead, email: firstname.lastname@op.fi) will be happy to answer your questions.

In the financial sector, our business is founded on trust and accountability, which is why the successful candidate will be checked for credit history, corporate connections, security clearance and must take a drug test. 

Equality and diversity are highly valued at OP Financial Group. We welcome job applications from people of all kinds, regardless of their gender identity or age, or the culture or minority group with which they identify.  

OP Financial Group is the leading financial services group in Finland and a pioneer in the industry’s digital transformation. Owned by our customers, we are the largest financial sector employer in Finland. OP Financial Group employs over 12,000 professionals and provides banking, asset management, wealth management and insurance services for our more than four million customers. For more information about OP as an employer and for all vacancies, go to our career pages.

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