To continue to fuel Swappie’s growth path and take our customer experience to the next level, we are looking for awesome team members, who want to make a difference for our environment and make buying refurbished electronics mainstream.

Would you like to drive the swappie.com shopping experience to a world-class level as

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

in our product team Demand?

We are looking for a full stack engineer with an excitement to build customer-driven experiences in the front-end. Demand is one of our five cross-functional product teams each dedicated to solving customer problems in their domain. The team is responsible for the on-site experience from SEO and our home page all the way to the cart, owning and improving the customer journey. The team’s main area of ownership is the customer experience of swappie.com while also handling the product, stock, and price data. Your work will have a tangible effect on the user experience of a system used by thousands of people daily. You’ll get to challenge yourself in a unique way by figuring out how our future growth is supported on the architecture level while simultaneously producing features.

As a Senior Software Engineer working on the Demand domain, you will drive technical excellence and good practices inside the team to build the best product we can for our customers. You will collaborate actively with other engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Analysts. Outside the product team, the main stakeholders are Marketing Country Managers with whom the team cooperates in providing the best holistic customer experience, from ads to checkout. The team’s customer focus is also showcased with close collaboration with Customer Service Agents. As for our tech stack, we work with Typescript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud.

IN THIS ROLE YOU

• Are expected to write good quality code that is clean and maintainable and solves business problems decided through a data-driven process
• Have responsibilities extending from design of the features through programming to deployment testing and maintenance of the systems
• Will tackle some of the most important technical and business challenges of Swappie and thus have a direct impact on the success of the company
• Will continuously deliver features through collaboration, code reviews, and coaching
• Will contribute to building a strong engineering culture and bringing scalable ways of working

WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE 

• A track record in web development with fluency in TypeScript. Ideally, you understand the entire web programming stack and lifecycle from design to operating in production at some level, but your core skills and interests may be more on the frontend.
• Flexibility to work in a full stack role. Focus of your work might change depending on the team’s focus area.
• Experience with customer-facing products, keeping the customer at the center of the development process
• Experience with fast-moving projects and initiatives, remaining flexible while also pushing features and updates to deployment with ease
• Love for building user-friendly projects informed by business intelligence
• Enthusiasm for knowledge sharing and collaboration with non-technical stakeholders
• Excitement for testing and playing a key role in driving improvements to our testing and deployment infrastructure
• Previous experience with e-commerce companies is a definite plus!
• High ownership mindset: you take responsibility for what you deliver and the domain you’re working in. You show a can-do attitude in your daily work.
• The ability for working independently as well as proven collaboration skills in a team
• Will to learn and improve continuously

WHAT WE OFFER

• A unique opportunity to take a key role in the product organization of a purpose-driven tech scale-up
• Flexible working hours and excellent remote working possibility. You can work from our cozy office in Helsinki (HQ), or remotely from Finland or Estonia.
• Supportive & low-hierarchy team. Weeklies and dailies with the team and weekly/bi-weekly 1:1s with your Team Lead. Friday demos to celebrate the week’s achievements.
• Competitive salary & great option package. In addition to a fixed monthly salary, you will have the ownership of Swappie and share in on our success through stock options.
• Scroll down and take a peek at the other reasons why you would like to join us!

Does this sound like an exciting opportunity you don’t want to miss? If yes, we would love to hear from you! Please reach out even if you feel like you are too senior or junior for the role, but that you are on this general track. We have more challenging and junior opportunities in addition to the specific ad you are seeing.

Recruitment process

1. Meet the recruiter. 45 mins. Let’s start exploring together if this role and Swappie could be a match for you!
2. Meet the leader of the product area. 60 mins. Get to know the product area, hear how we work and tell us more about you and your past experience!
3. Technical round. Pair coding (60 mins) and architecture discussion (75 mins). Showcase your skills and learn more about your potential new colleagues!

All discussions will be held remotely via Google Meet.

Take a look also at the other open roles in Swappie Engineering!

Please note that we are contacting candidates continuously, so do not hesitate to apply as soon as possible. The position will be filled as soon as we find the right match. If you have any questions about the role or the recruitment, we are happy to reply to you at recruitment@swappie.com. Please note that we don’t accept job applications via email.

Location: Our HQ office in Helsinki, or remotely from Finland or Estonia. Kindly note that we wish the candidate to be eligible to work in Finland or Estonia.

Job type: Permanent, full-time