Lead AI-Native Developer

Veikkaus is a gaming company for everyone, striving to be better in every aspect. Our passion is to drive better gaming so that our customers can enjoy every moment. Caring, teamwork, and courage are the values that guide everything we do. Responsibility is a core of our operations. Our goal is to be a respected and successful international money gaming group that continuously improves while always putting both customers and employees first. For a better game — and working life.

Lead AI-Native Developer

We are currently implementing an AI-native software engineering operating model for Veikkaus.

As a Lead AI-Native Developer, you lead our web engineering pods through an AI-native development model — one where autonomous AI agent write, test, and ship production code alongside your team, and you stay hands-on, writing and reviewing code alongside them to keep that collaboration reliable. Day to day, you'll build features and write code across our web stack (TypeScript, React, Astro, Node.js, AWS) while directing AI agents on implementation, testing, and deployment, decide how work is divided between you, your team, and your agents, and mentor developers adapting to this way of building. You'll work side by side with AI agents that handle much of the implementation, testing, and deployment — setting direction, reviewing outcomes, and writing code yourself where it matters most.

You will thrive in this position, if you have:

• Hands-on production experience with our core web stack — TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS — and a deep understanding of the agentic development lifecycle.
• Practical, hands-on experience working with AI agent systems in your own development work — prompting, tool use, multi-agent orchestration — beyond just using AI coding assistants’ day to day.
• Proven experience developing complex features end-to-end, with comfort using and evolving CI/CD and quality tooling (GitLab, pnpm, vitest, Cypress, Playwright, Grafana) in an agent-driven workflow.
• The ability to set clear technical direction for your own AI-native development work and help your team adopt an agent-based approach.
• Strong empathy for the daily work of developers and a drive to create AI systems that augment and empower their creativity.

Considered an advantage

• Experience with our broader front-end stack — Astro, Zustand, Tanstack Query, i18next — or comparable tools.
• A genuine interest in how human ideas and AI can work together to handle complex delivery tasks.
• The motivation to move past old habits and use AI to find better, guided paths for teams to succeed.
• The curiosity to explore how new tools can help others adapt to an AI-native way of working.

We offer

• A workplace where the game evolves – and so do you. You’ll face meaningful challenges and gain new skills while contributing to shared success – in Finland and beyond. We value curiosity and create the space for it to thrive.
• Inspiring and supportive teammates you can rely on. The best ideas and world-class entertainment are built together – and Veikkaus thrives because of its people.
• Balanced and inspiring work life. At Veikkaus, we believe a good job adds something to life – but isn’t all there is to it.
• Excellent employee benefits. You can read more about us and our benefits from here.

It is important to us that everyone can come to work as their authentic selves. We value diverse backgrounds, skills, and perspectives, and believe that success comes from working in diverse teams. We encourage individuals from various backgrounds to apply for our jobs.

The position is located at Veikkaus’ headquarters in Pohjois-Haaga, Helsinki. We work flexibly in a hybrid model with three on-site days per week.

Interested? Awesome! Please send your application with CV and salary request no later than 4.10.2026. We are excited to hear from you!

For any inquiries about the position don't hesitate to contact Pasi Brusila, Head of Digital Channel Development by phone (+358504802177) on Tuesday between 9-10am or by email (pasi.brusila@veikkaus.fi)

A drug test under Section 7 of the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life (759/2004) will be conducted on the selected candidate.