Saab Sensor Technology Center in Tampere is part of Business Area Surveillance. Our R&D teams are developing extremely versatile and innovative electronic warfare systems, motivated by a clear target: to keep people and society safe. As an example of a brilliant product that we are developing in Tampere, check out Sirius Compact!
Saab’s Tampere facility develops innovative and small-scale electronic warfare systems to ensure the safety of people and societies. Our team develops user interface applications using web-based technologies.
Your role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys taking ownership — not just coding backend features, but shaping the technical direction of our product. You’ll work across architecture, implementation, and technical decision-making, helping us build a modern, scalable system.
What you’ll do
- Design and implement solutions that strengthen our architecture and overall quality
- Develop features mainly on the backend (with some flexibility across the stack)
- Contribute to technical choices and guide the direction of the platform
- Take responsibility for areas that benefit from senior-level clarity and structure
Your profile
To thrive in this role, you have deep technical expertise combined with good communication skills.
Following skills and experience are needed to succeed in the role:
- Several years of experience in planning and documenting application and system architecture
- Experience in designing event-based systems in environments with limited computing capacity
- Ability to design and manage integrations of disparate systems ensuring seamless dataflow and interoperability
- Understanding of CI/CD systems
- Experience with agile development methodologies and tools
- Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Fluency in English and Finnish
We also appreciate deep technical know-how of following or similar technologies:
- Web technologies, especially TypeScript, Node.js and Vue.js
- Databases like SQLite
- Application interfaces REST, Websocket, OpenAPI, GRPC
- Desktop applications using Electron
- Map-based systems
If the description above sounds like you, we encourage you to apply!
In this job, some of your tasks have a connection to defense secrecy. Therefore, a drug test and approved security clearance in accordance with the Finnish Security Clearance act 726/2014 is required for the selected applicant.
What you will be part of?
Our unit offers a wide range of interesting opportunities to grow and challenge yourself within the exciting field of Electronic Warfare. In addition to interesting projects and learning by doing, Saab offers various trainings and learning paths to help you build your competence and career.
Your work place will be at Saab Technology Center in Tampere downtown in newly renovated premises.
We highly value work-life balance and offer flexible working hours and partial remote work possibility. We also offer a good benefit package, including full lunch benefit, exercise & culture benefit, gym facilities, transport related options, and many more.
We hope to have you as part of our team as soon as possible, however we can be flexible with the start date.
Interested?
Take your chance to build your future career at Saab by submitting your CV and application via Saab Careers already now!
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.
If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal – to help protect people.