Software Team Lead

Software Team Lead At Nosto, we’re on a mission to make every impression relevant. We’re a global leader in the booming eCommerce space and work with amazing customers. Who are we? At Nosto, we’re on a mission to make every impression relevant. We’re a global leader in the booming e-commerce space and work with amazing customers like FIGS, Muji, Kylie Cosmetics and O’Neill. Every day we process data for thousands of merchants and tens of millions of shoppers. Using behavioral data, deep store integrations, machine learning, and automated workflows, the Nosto Commerce Experience Platform helps retailers deliver personalized commerce experiences at scale. We serve more than 64 billion personalized experiences annually, with traffic peaks reaching millions of requests per minute. As an Software Team Lead at Nosto, you’ll help solve one of the biggest challenges in retail today: delivering authentic, relevant shopping experiences that drive results. We believe in listening closely to customers and achieving big things by making steady progress every day. What you’ll be working on You’ll lead the Personalization engineering team and stay deeply involved in the technical work. The Personalization team is responsible for some of the flagship areas of the Nosto platform, such as Product Recommendations and our Agentic AI features like Ask Huginn. This is a genuinely hands-on role: you’ll spend a meaningful part of your time building, reviewing, and shipping alongside the team, while also steering direction and delivery. The team is experienced and long-tenured, with strong domain knowledge and a pragmatic way of working. Your scope will touch infrastructure, backend, and frontend development. You won’t be alone in that, though — you’ll work closely with platform and specialist teams such as Data & AI, Product Design, Site Reliability, and Core Frontend to hit your goals. You’ll partner with Product Management, Customer Success, and Technical Solution Managers to ensure we deliver clear customer value. We operate with low hierarchy and low politics, and we expect leaders to drive change when something can be improved. You will report to the Head of Engineering for Integrations and Personalization. This role offers a natural progression for a Lead Developer eager to expand into team leadership while maintaining a strong hands-on technical presence What you’ll be doing Leading a team of 6 engineers Acting as a hands-on people lead: designing, coding and reviewing with the team Providing technical leadership and helping set high standards for engineering quality Owning end-to-end technical delivery for key projects, from architecture and planning through execution and production rollout Collaborating with stakeholders and other teams on cross-functional initiatives What we expect Strong Java experience is a must Ability to lead senior, independent people with trust and clarity Pragmatic, self-driven approach, with a continuous improvement mindset 10+ years of hands-on development experience, with strong senior-level backend competence Experience running and operating systems in production Fluent spoken and written English What we appreciate Strong experience with Vue or React (TypeScript/JavaScript) is preferred Familiarity with AI/ML solutions, CI/CD pipelines, data engineering stacks, logging and monitoring Experience with AWS or other public cloud providers is a plus Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field What we offer Apple Devices 💻 📱 Ergonomic and centrally located offices🏢 with flexible working hours and remote working options 🏡 🗺️ Opportunities to meet and collaborate with awesome team members from all over the world 👋 An extra day off on your birthday 🥳 Mental Health App benefit 🧘 Paid time off to do good for the community around you 🫶 About five weeks of vacation 🌴 and other benefits depending on the location Nosto Supports Workplace Diversity We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Department Product Locations Nosto Helsinki Office Remote status Hybrid About Nosto Nosto is the intelligent Commerce Experience Platform (CXP) that gives brands and retailers intuitively designed tools to increase online revenue through end-to-end commerce experience management. With experience.AI™ , Nosto helps brands enrich and activate customer, product and content data in real-time across personalization, product discovery, and user-generated content to deliver high-performing commerce experiences at scale. Nosto supports intelligent commerce experiences for more than 1,500 brands in over 100 countries. Founded in 2011 Co-workers 160