Full Stack Developer (Oikotie Asunnot)

Company? Schibsted, the product company, gathering together brands Oikotie, Tori, Rakentaja & Sähkövertailu. We are over 250 in Finland and 5000 in the Nordics to steer innovation to better serve the millions of people interacting with us.

Role? Full Stack Developer contributing to the future of Oikotie Asunnot, one of the leading real estate marketplaces in Finland with 1M monthly visitors: designing and implementing scalable and robust web services, APIs and databases in a cloud environment.

Requirements? Experience in agile development with object-oriented programming, writing testable code and developing web platforms. Eagerness to take part in the product discovery.

Tech stack?

OOP with Zend and Slim frameworks, AngularJS, Ecmascript/Typescript, and
relational databases (MySQL/Aurora). Environments are run in AWS, and CI/CD pipelines
are used to automate builds, run tests and make deployments.

Location? The office is located a few steps away from the Helsinki railway station. Our
future is hybrid so you can be based anywhere in Finland. Currently, our squad is spread
between Helsinki, Tampere and Oulu!

Why us? To work with Finland’s leading real estate marketplace with 1M weekly users! We
work independently on our Finnish products in a flat hierarchy and environment that values
creative approaches and open communication. Also, we are lucky to have a Nordic
Schibsted community with whom to share ideas and learn from. Our community embraces
curiosity, a problem-solving mindset, and continuous learning.

Sounds like your cup of tea? Check out the details below!

WHO ARE YOU?
– Experience with OOP with Zend and Slim frameworks & writing testable code. Our
release is fully automated end-to-end, thus we aim to produce clean code.
– Mastering JavaScript frameworks, such as TS or ES6 and relational databases e.g.
MySQL/Aurora.
– Understanding or experience with Git Flow or Trunk-based development.
– Fluency in English, as it is our company language.
– Potentially even experience from high-load SEO dependent environments and/or CD/CI
process & tools. Don’t worry if they are new to you, we’re sure you can pick them up easily!
– As a person, you are a curious self-starter willing to develop yourself and take on
challenges with a problem-solver mindset. If you are inspired by problems and creating
something new from scratch, we believe that our working culture is a great fit for you! Here is
a motivated, development-oriented bunch of positive thinkers waiting for you. We hope you
find our way of thinking as inspiring as we do!

WHAT’S THE JOB LIKE?

Responsibilities & projects

As a member of our growing Oikotie Asunnot tech squad, you are one of the key contributors
to the new features development and the renewal of the marketplace’s architecture. Your
focus is on designing and implementing scalable and robust web services, APIs and
databases in a cloud environment. Furthermore, you ensure the quality of our services in the
complex hi-load environment through diverse practises like monitoring, efficient logging,
automation and unit testing with code coverage. We do discovery work, conceptualization
and experimentation guided by OKRs (Objectives – Key Results), we develop in sprints, and
release on-demand.

Tech stack

Key technologies in use are Zend and Slim frameworks, AngularJS, Ecmascript/Typescript
and MySQL/Aurora. Our containerised and serverless environments run in the AWS and
CI/CD pipelines are designed to deliver code into production a few times per week. You jump
into a moving train since we are currently transitioning our already modernised stack to an
even more modern one. We are still on the move forward and you will be a part of the
journey. An open mind for new tech, best practices and methods are celebrated and
learnings are guaranteed, as this is a pivotal moment for the Oikotie tech organisation.

Goals

During your first six months, we expect you to get on board, settle in the team, gradually take
over your role and collaboratively start building new features for Oikotie Asunnot. Further
down the road, we are eager to see you not just finishing backlog tasks but also contributing
to building our vision, strategy and work methods. Your expertise is for example needed in
the product discovery initiatives where you would act as a tech expert. How do we bring
even more traffic and new listings on our real-estate platform, it’s up to you and to the team!
Not everything is sweet, so here is the main opportunity for improvement

As we are scaling up our software architecture and collaborating across teams, we aim to
modernise the architecture and make it more loosely coupled. Thus, your expertise is
needed in analysing the current situation and throwing in ideas. Are you ready to hop along
on the development journey?

Colleagues

Here is a 98 member tech family eagerly waiting for you! Our Oikotie Asunnot Tech team
gathers together 12 bright experts: developers, a tester, designers, a lead developer,
Product Managers & a Development Manager. We are a growing team, thus new colleagues
will be welcomed in the near future! We are mature in agile practises and our work is paced
by two-week sprints and OKRs in a network of empowered cross-functional squads. We
expect everyone in our team to improve our common ways of working and share learnings &
best practices since we believe them to enable both individual and team growth.

When getting to know us, you notice quickly that, we truly live and work based on our three
key values: we win together when working on cross-functional squads around the OKRs,
we encourage each other to be curious and actively develop ourselves for example with the
help of LinkedIn Learning -platform, and we are empowered to have courage to share ideas and challenge ourselves. If our way of living resonates with you, we believe that we are a
dream workplace for you!

GOT YOUR ATTENTION? Let us hear from you!

If you are looking for a workplace and the role in which you could share your knowledge and
expertise, learn, get inspired, be yourself, and feel good, let us hear from you! We are
happy to receive your application by Monday, January 31.

ANY QUESTIONS?
Our Development Manager (Oikotie Asunnot) Yevgeniya Nättilä
(yevgeniya.nattila(at)schibsted.com) is happy to tell you about the daily work and Modesta
Paulauskaitė, Talent Attraction Specialist, (modesta.paulauskaite(at)schibsted.com) can
share insights about our company culture!

RECRUITMENT PROCESS?
1. 30 min meeting with the Recruiter Modesta (your background & skills in short, your career
goals, Schibsted as an employer)
2. 60 min meeting with Yevgeniya, the hiring manager (diving deeper into your background &
skills, role goals & expectations)
3. 75 min technical interview with a few colleagues (time to show what you got!)
4. 30 min chat with the Head of Engineering Juha (Tech team overall ) and 30 min with the
HR Manager Elisa (company culture, values & learning and development)

In every interview, we dedicate 10-15 minutes for you to interview us. So think about
things you would like to know and have courage to ask difficult questions! The hiring
decision always has two sides: we make our choice, but most importantly, you are also
making a big decision for your future. Hence, we want to make sure that all your questions
are answered and you have all the necessary tools before taking your next career step.