Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Location: Helsinki, Finland; on-site

Salary: €75,000–€85,000 per year

Company

Ookla, an Accenture company, delivers connectivity intelligence and network performance insights through products including Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau, and RootMetrics.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain services and platforms that support applications for designing and optimizing Wi-Fi networks.
• Adapt the web application architecture to support new features involving measurement-device data, control planes, cloud data, and APIs.
• Participate in technical planning and help shape the future software stack and architecture.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other teams to deliver high-quality features.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues affecting application stability and efficiency.
• Mentor junior team members on architecture, best practices, and effective engineering practices.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Professional experience with Java, Spring Boot, Node, and TypeScript.
• Experience building scalable solutions and microservices on AWS.
• Experience designing and working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and contribute to technical decisions.

Nice to have

• Modern frontend development experience with Vue or React.
• Experience with Kotlin, Scala, or Terraform.
• Growth mindset and a strong focus on getting things done.

Culture & Benefits

• Close collaboration within a tight-knit engineering team.
• Opportunity to influence implementation decisions and future architecture.
• Work on products that help service providers, enterprises, and governments optimize connectivity.
• Base pay is determined by experience, skills, role scope, education, training, and company performance.