Lead developer, Digital Channels

Veikkaus creates joy through games. We provide great experiences and top-notch games, but not at any cost. We foster the joy of gaming and make sure that Finns play with moderation, enjoying our games. We want to be the pioneer of responsible gaming experience.
Almost all adult Finns have tried our games and we have two million Loyal Customers. We are involved in Finnish life in many ways. We are ca. 1,600 Veikkaus employees, working at nearly a hundred locations all over Finland. Our games are sold at thousands of points of sales and they are also available for safe online gaming at veikkaus.fi and in the Veikkaus application.
Now we can offer an excellent opportunity to join our crew, as we are looking for a
Lead Developer for the Digital Channels unit
Digital Channels -unit develops Veikkaus’s digital services used by over 2 million registered users. With over a million visitors per week, Veikkaus.fi is the largest consumer web store in Finland. The Veikkaus Mobile App is also used by hundreds of thousands of Finns. As a Lead Developer, you are at the core of making sure these services are top-of-the-line now and in the future.
The focus in this position is in developing a modern web service. We work in agile development teams, consisting of developers, designers, QA specialists, analysts and product- and game experts. The diversity of the expertise of the teams and the variety in the types of projects we have enable learning new skillsets, technical or otherwise. We utilize data heavily in our development, do continuous a/b-testing, build our in-house machine learning capabilities, and do multiple daily debployments to production. High quality is a key requirement for us, as is a relaxed, innovative and fun environment for working!
We use FP/FRP -paradigms. Other magic words for us are React, ES6, Less, Bacon.js, Lodash, Gulp, Node.js, Webpack, GraphQL, AWS ja GCP. We expect that you already have extensive experience on web development and you are enthusiastic to learn more. You like working in an agile team and you have good communication skills. We build high volume and high value services directly to our consumer customers, so a passion for quality is a must.
We offer you a relaxed, flexible work community and an opportunity to work for the benefit of the entire society. A good work-life balance is also something we strive for. Our benefits package is good, and we can offer a good office environment and tools in our head office in Pohjois-Haaga, Helsinki. You can work remotely as well. During corona we mainly work from home whenever possible.
This is a full time position.
Additional information available from Janne Vuorenmaa on tuesday 2.2 at 13-15 and wednesday 10.2 at 9-12 tel. +3589 43708052 or anytime via email (firstname.lastname@veikkaus.fi). If interested, act fast, as this position will be filled immediately we find the right candidate!
According to the Act on Security Clearance (726/2014), Veikkaus as a company will perform a credit information check, and security clearance check to the person selected for the position.
Veikkaus Oy
Veikkaus tuottaa peleillä iloa. Tarjoamme elämyksiä ja huippupelejä, mutta emme hinnalla millä hyvänsä.
Huolehdimme, että pelaaminen säilyy ilon puolella, ja suomalaiset pelaavat maltilla ja peli-ilosta nauttien.
Haluamme olla vastuullisen pelaajakokemuksen suunnannäyttäjiä.
Lähes kaikki aikuiset suomalaiset ovat kokeilleet pelejämme, ja meillä on kaksi miljoonaa Etuasiakasta.
Olemme monella tavalla mukana suomalaisessa elämässä. Meitä veikkauslaisia on noin 1 600 ja työskentelemme lähes sadassa pisteessä eri puolilla maata. Pelejämme myydään tuhansissa paikoissa, ja niitä voi pelata turvallisesti myös veikkaus.fissä ja Veikkaus-sovelluksessa.