Lead Developer, Design System team (Helsinki/Oulu)

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Are you seeking new opportunities in an innovative and dynamic environment? Do you enjoy the challenge of steering a team and using your skills to develop superior solutions for customers? Our Design System team at OP Financial Group is currently searching for an experienced lead web frontend developer to join us in Helsinki or Oulu. Like the rest of OP, we work flexibly, combining both office days and remote work. In our team this means typically at least a couple of office days per week.

What is the role like?

In this role, you will work in the Design System team, leading the technical development of the OP Design System, which serves dozens of product teams. Our Design System is widely adopted; however, responding to future needs and expanding the system for even greater impact requires a focus on technical architecture and community building. Working with UI/UX Designers, Developers, and Product Owners, you will translate business requirements into actionable technical solutions and foster collaboration around the Design System at OP.

One of your main responsibilities is to lead the team by introducing, designing, and implementing technical solutions and practices in collaboration with the Frontend Architecture team, setting an example by demonstrating best practices and driving change where needed. You will also actively contribute to building and documenting components and other common UI solutions.

What we expect from you?

We are looking for an experienced Frontend Developer with hands-on software development skills and flexible mindset, who has experience in large-scale operations and is willing to guide a development team and advocate for companywide best practices around design system in collaboration with a Product Owner, Agile Master and the rest of the team. 

Experience in leading established design systems and large developer communities    
Deep understanding and hands on experience from frontend development and technologies (HTML, CSS, TypeScript/JavaScript) and modern frontend libraries and frameworks, such as React 
Experience from leading software teams 
Experience from accessibility
Experience on UI/UX design principles and tools, quality assurance and cloud platforms is seen as a plus 
Communication skills in English are required, fluency in Finnish is a huge plus!

What we offer you?

It wouldn’t be fair if we had nothing to offer you. We have a wide range of staff benefits including a personnel fund and special terms for employee banking, insurance, and loan services. We offer comprehensive occupational health care, extensive medical treatment expenses insurance and a full-time group accident insurance policy. We invest in wellbeing at work by encouraging a good work-life balance, providing flexibility in your daily life, and offering lunch, sport and cultural benefits and opportunities for affordable holidays in OP timeshares.

We also encourage and help you to further develop yourself as a technical professional. We have the so called “70/20/10 rule” in use, which means you will use 70% of your time for your daily tasks, 20% to develop the way you do those tasks, and the last 10% is reserved for you to learn and try new things. You will also have our OP Tech Academy at your disposal in case you are interested in learning new technologies or methodologies, or why not in honing your skills in your current stack.

Did we spark your interest?

Great, we can’t wait to hear from you! The application period is open until 25.5.2025, so now it is your time to shine! Do you have some questions related to the role in your mind? Teemu Kuusento (Senior Product Owner, tel. +358 45 631 3162) will be happy to answer your questions on Friday, May 16th, from 10:00 to 11:00 AM, and on Thursday, May 22nd, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM.

We operate in the financial sector and our business is founded on trust and accountability. For this reason, we will check the successful candidate's credit history, corporate connections and potential conflicts of interest. In addition, the successful candidate must take a drug test and will be subject to a security clearance vetting by the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.

OP Financial Group – We have something in common

Diversity and equality are highly prized at OP Financial Group. We want everyone to feel welcome and valued, and we appreciate that diversity enriches us and brings new perspectives. We invite job applications from everyone, because we all have something in common. We’re thrilled that you want to join us on our shared journey.

Owned by our customers, we are the most attractive financial sector employer in Finland. Our Group employs more than 14,000 professionals. We have a mission – to promote the sustainable prosperity, security and wellbeing of our owner-customers and operating region. What we do matters, both to our employees and society in general. As the largest financial services group in Finland, we are building a better tomorrow; this has been our goal for more than 120 years.

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