Software Developer - Associate Program 2025 - Tampere

at  Columbia Road

WHO WE ARE

In 2016 Columbia Road was founded to challenge the old ways of doing digital business and running online sales – we exist to help our clients sell better in the digital era. This means we don’t do IT projects like most other companies, instead we work to improve our clients’ business results in a measurable way. Development, design, strategy and marketing just happen to be the tools with which we create our impact.
A key part of our mission is to be an excellent place to work. We are a community-led organisation, which means that we trust our employees to make the best decisions about their work themselves. This company model is based on transparency and low hierarchy. All employees have the opportunity to be involved in company-wide decision-making, and the chance to become an owner of Columbia Road by investing in company stocks. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of how we define ourselves and everyone at Columbia Road is committed to these values.

THE JOB

As a software developer, you are interested in what happens under the hood of modern digital sales channels. You’ll get to work together with other Columbia Road consultants in a cross-competence team, building and growing new digital businesses for our customers in various fields of business. This means you may collaborate daily with designers, digital marketers, strategy consultants, as well as our clients’ stakeholders and specialists. You will be supported in your learning by peers in both development and other domains, and you’ll have the ability to create real impact in our clients’ businesses.
Your motivation comes from the results and impact your solution creates, rather than the technical beauty of the code. If you’re looking for a workplace where you get a lot of responsibility and where you get to learn new things fast from more experienced peers, you’ll find it here. You will get to grow with us, nurture your own ambitions and learn new skills within digital sales.

HERE’S HOW YOU KNOW YOU’RE A GOOD FIT

• You are a student in the final year(s) of your studies, or a recent graduate.
• You have already gained some professional work experience related to software development. For example, most of our current Associate Consultants had worked part time in a professional setting for a couple of years before joining Columbia Road.
• You’ve used one or two of the following programming languages (and their most common frameworks) in a professional setting: JavaScript, Typescript, Clojure, Scala, PHP or Python.
• You are self-driven, proactive and want to continuously learn new things.
• You understand the basics of digitalisation and you approach problems in an analytical manner.
• You would love to work with challenging client cases supported by a diverse community of digital sales professionals.
• You are comfortable communicating matters related to your own work and you enjoy working with other people in an agile environment – it’s not a problem for you to present your own ideas to a small group of people from time to time, for example in a workshop.
• You have a “get things done” attitude towards your work.
  Please note: We value close and constant collaboration in our team work – whether it’s with customers, fellow Roadies and/or consultants from other companies – as it enables us to learn from each other and work more efficiently towards a shared goal. Often this is achieved best by working from the same location. Hence, we can only consider candidates who live (or plan to move) within commuting distance of Helsinki or Tampere and are open to working on-site according to client needs.
  We are currently not able to offer visa sponsorships for Finland, so, unfortunately, we can’t consider applications from outside EU/EEA.

Please refer the Job description for details