Lead Frontend Engineer, prisma.fi

We are looking for an experienced frontend-oriented fullstack engineer to develop our new and improved Prisma.fi store. During 2023 we finalized all the mandatory functions with the website and now we are moving forward with new features. In your role, you would take part in our customer-facing services, product data pipelines or order management services, and mentor and facilitate other people’s work. The squad you would be joining is focused on improving the customer experience and commercial performance of prisma.fi. We hope that you are active in forming the technical decisions within the squad so that the technical stack remains future proof from the whole store’s point of view. Leading by example and supporting the team is something you do on a day-to-day basis. We would also be excited if you had experience with information security, site reliability engineering or architecture design.

About our Prisma.fi store

We are utilizing a headless eCom engine in the background while building our own frontend and supporting backend microservices. Codewise you’ll be bumping into TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js and Vercel. The infra is built on AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB and EKS – using Serverless framework, Terraform and Gitlab pipelines for deployment. The teams manage their own cloud deployment as well as the CI/CD pipelines, but there’s always expertise available from the DevOps & Developer Experience team.

We work closely within the team but also communicate a lot with other teams – so hopefully you love the communicative working style. We also work in a hybrid setting with at least one office day per week, though some of us like to spend more time at the office.

What we hope from you
* Deep understanding in Next.JS, TypeScript and AWS Services (Lambda, API Gateway etc.)
* Fluent English in work related matters
* Clear and proactive communication
* Interest in mentoring and facilitating

Previous experience of developing eCommerce solutions is very much appreciated but not required – we also appreciate DevOps experience, testing and QA knowledge as well as usability and accessibility background.

What we offer in return

On top of a respectful salary, superb company benefits and the finest colleagues, this is what we offer in return:
* Influence and responsibility. Our engineers have a lot of freedom in their work and we want to support a nurturing environment
* Ownership. You’re creating services directly for the end-users. You’re not visiting a project; you own the product
* Workplace democracy. Our ways of working are not set in stone. Together we’ll continuously improve the ways of developing products and services in the biggest private employer in Finland.
* Reasonable workload. Our supportive community with its great ways of working, setting realistic expectations and the possibility of hybrid work all adds up to less stress for you
* An opportunity to gain know-how and technical competence in wide-ranging technology domains (like web, mobile and cloud) as well as business sectors (restaurants, hotels, online retail and service stations)
* An opportunity to improve and influence the daily lives of millions of people
* Concrete and rewarding end-results, which you can experience yourself by using S Group’s services, when doing your grocery shopping, fueling or staying in a hotel, for example

About SOK Digital Development

The Prisma.fi team is part of the SOK Digital Development community where we develop web services and apps for the whole S Group – digitalizing the S Group services. The businesses include grocery stores, consumer goods/fashion/beauty stores, bank services, fuel/service stations, hotels and restaurants.
SOK is owned by the businesses a.k.a. co-operatives, which are owned by their customers. This means we are not on the leash of VC capital or investors – rather we develop services directly for the end users, who are also our owners. We operate with the freedom, responsibility and stability that comes with it.

We believe in community internally and externally, are design conscious and pride ourselves on our open-source commitment. We have a blossoming DevOps culture, and we use modern tools and lean on democratic development standards. We have a holistic philosophy for modern and pure software development practices.

Our Process

Please submit your CV in English and cover letter here. Do it rather sooner than later, since we start processing applications as soon as they’re submitted. Our recruiter will be in touch with you promptly! Once contact has been made, you will have the opportunity to ask what questions you may have about this job, our people, and what your future could look like at SOK.

Our interview process is both respectful and comprehensive. You’ll meet our recruiter Jari, Team Leader Tuomas and later your future teammates. We’ll be discussing technical things as well as softer skills, and it’s possible we’ll set up a code-related exercise. The aim is to ensure we can offer what you’re looking for, and to make sure you’re the right person for the job. Despite the outcome we strive to make the process a positive one.