Full-Stack Developer K-Rauta, K-Bygg and Byggmakker

K Group's BHI (Building and Home Improvement) eCom team is looking for an experienced Full-Stack Developer. Maybe you are looking for a change of scenery, or perhaps an accomplished junior who feels you are ready to take on a large system with multiple deployments. In any case, if delivering business value, technical debt management and agile methodologies sound like good ideas, perhaps this could be your next career move?

The BHI eCom Team

The mission of the team is developing the Cyclone platform powering the eCom solutions for K-Rauta, Byggmakker and K-Bygg. We have developed our own eCom platform, called Cyclone, serving our Building and Home Improvement businesses in Finland, Sweden and Norway with many different ERPs in the back end, a part or our larger Building and Technical Trade business. The Cyclone dev team is a distributed and multinational agile software development team. We are fulfilling business needs by developing front-ends and microservice capabilities integrating with the back-ends. We subscribe to a DevOps-philosophy – everyone is empowered to not just implement features, but also to improve and support the platform.

Our team’s responsibilities :

• Developing and maintaining web applications and services using React and Node.js
• Interacting with our stakeholders in a multinational environment
• Collaborating with designers and other developers to build high quality user interfaces
• Writing clean, maintainable and efficient code
• Ensuring our applications are fast, scalable and responsive
• Building and maintaining APIs using Node.js
• Managing data storage and retrieval using services such as PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch
• Participating in code reviews and sharing knowledge within the team
• Keeping up to date with the latest developments in web technologies
• Contributing to our team’s and K Group's software development practices

Your role as a developer

As a full-stack developer in the team you will be contributing to the team’s backlog. When not writing (or reading) code, you’re coordinating with the rest of the team and our stakeholders. You don’t just develop your own code, but also review code from other team members, and take part in improving our development practices. You also support your team’s PO in maintaining and refining the backlog.

What we are looking for:

• Several years of experience in software development with a larger interdependent system
• Familiarity with writing maintainable and well tested code A willingness to not just work on given tasks but, also contribute to the common platform * and making the team better as a whole
• An ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively as part of a team
• Fluent communication in English, which is our working language
• A degree in engineering, major in information technology, software- or web development – or equivalent experience
• You can make it to Kalasatama in Helsinki once a week to be with the team on-site
• Please also note you will need the existing right to work in Finland. K Group is unable to sponsor work permits or visas

Tech buzzword bingo:

HTML – CSS – JavaScript – TypeScript – React – Redux – Node.js – RESP APIs – Single Page Apps – Docker – CI/CD – Kafka – PostgreSQL – Mocha – Jest – Webpack

Bonus points if you have experience with any of these:

• Microservice architectures
• Software architecture planning
• Strategic planning related to maintaining a system long term
• Meta frameworks such as Next.js and Remix
• Cloud-based deployment platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Heroku
• Web software monitoring tools such as Datadog or DynaTrace
• Implementing A/B testing
• Implementing automated end-to-end tests
• Working with SQL, including writing complex queries, optimizing database performance and designing database schemas
• Containerization using Docker
• Customer journey- and conversion optimization
• Design thinking and UX
• ERP and/or CRM process development
• Hardware retail or building contractor experience may help you better understand our customers!
• The more of the above the better, but we’re not looking for unicorns :)

What we can offer you:

The K Group offers attractive opportunities for driving the trading sector forward. You’ll be working in a key function of a leading sector company and innovate solutions for its core operations in the grocery trade, building and technical trade, and car trade.

• A great multinational team, suitably professional yet not too serious
• A cool and complex micro-service based omnichannel platform to work with
• The ability to work in a fast-moving environment where your input really matters
• An open work culture where you bring your own ideas to the table, both technically, and improving our services and ways of working as well
• Extensive employee benefits unique to the K group. These include, among others: Culture & sport benefit (ePassi), shopping benefits that apply in K-Group stores and staff shops, own occupational health care services and leisure time accident insurance
• For office days - modern office with several accommodations (e.g., collaboration and break areas throughout the office, gym, health care services, restaurant and cafeteria…) along good connections in Kalasatama, Helsinki
• The team is great, honestly. We’re not just saying this

At K Group, you get to create solutions that make people’s everyday lives easier, with the strength of data gathered from 1.5 million daily customer encounters. You’ll have your finger on the pulse of our consumer and business customers in the grocery trade, building and technical trade and car trade, and get to take part in various interesting projects.

For digital experts with their eye on the future, we offer vast amounts of data and the chance to harness their creativity to improve people’s everyday lives. Our culture encourages reinvention, experimentation, mistakes and learning.

Corporate responsibility is integrated into K Group’s day-to-day activities, and we strive to help our customers make good choices. We want to make life easier for our customers by offering them quality products and services that promote welfare. The focus of our responsibility work is on the welfare of both people and the environment.

Feeling interested? Don’t delay applying!

Submit your application already today! We plan to interview candidates during the application period and will proceed with the hire when the right person is found. For more information, contact Matti-Pekka Sivosuo, matti-pekka.sivosuo@kesko.fi. We value the balance between work and vacation so there will be delay in responses in July.

The chosen candidate is required to take a drug test as part of the pre-employment health-check.