Lead Developer (TypeScript)
The Upright Project
Software Engineering
Helsinki, Finland
Posted on Jan 10, 2025
Are you an experienced Lead Developer eager to make a significant impact? We’re looking for a Lead Developer to join Upright's Platform Team and help shape the future of our cutting-edge data analytics platform.
Upright’s platform powers decision-making for 300+ institutional investment organizations and corporations across Europe and North America. Our platform team develops and maintains both customer-facing features and internal tools that ensure seamless data insights for our users.
As a Lead Developer, you’ll play a crucial role in taking ownership of larger projects and initiatives, while potentially also guiding a team to deliver impactful results. You’ll take charge of technical leadership in key areas, own project delivery, mentor and coach team members, delegate tasks effectively, drive process improvements, and communicate with stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on schedule, efficiently, and with impeccable quality.
This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-growing company while shaping the future of our platform. Responsibilities will be tailored to match your experience and interests, ensuring you can thrive in a role that aligns with your strengths and ambitions.
If you’re ready to grow your career and lead meaningful change, we’d love to hear from you!
SIGNS OF BEING A GREAT MATCH FOR THIS ROLE INCLUDE:
- At least 6 years experience in professional software development, and proven track record of software development in TypeScript/JavaScript, Node, and React.
- Proven experience leading development teams, mentoring junior developers, and providing technical direction.
- Understanding of the whole software development lifecycle including design, development, deployment, and operations.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on optimizing performance and maintainability.
- Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with cross-functional teams and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical decision-making and set the technical direction for projects.
- Solid track record of internal passion for excellence: you have gotten things done clearly better than what was required/expected from you, as you enjoy doing things well.
ADDITIONALLY, WE VALUE THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:
- Deep experience in developing distributed, data-intensive software products.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Docker, Linux, and AWS services.
- Experience with programming in Python.
- Proficiency in designing user interfaces and UX.
WHAT WE OFFER:
- A chance to join a quickly growing and highly ambitious impact SaaS company with a mission that matters
- A fun and kind team with exceptional people who care about what they do
- Exciting professional growth opportunities
- Competitive compensation, including stock options and a comprehensive healthcare package
MISSION THAT MATTERS
Upright is on a mission to incentivize companies to optimize their net impact by enabling science-based decision-making for investors, customers, employees, and public sector agents. To do that, Upright develops a proprietary data model based on an open-access database of 200M+ scientific articles and artificial intelligence to quantify the net impact of companies on people, planet, society, and knowledge creation. In addition to net impact, Upright produces data on UN SDG alignment, EU taxonomy, and EU SFDR PAI indicators. Currently, our impact data platform is used by 300+ institutional investors and companies, such as Nasdaq, Nordea, EQT and Nokia.
DEADLINE AND WHO TO CONTACT
Candidates are reviewed on a continuous basis. If the post is still online, it means we're still looking for more additions to the team. :)
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to recruiting@uprightproject.com