[Hiring] Technical Lead @Telia Company

Role Description

We’re looking for a Technical Lead to join us at Telia. Want to embark on a new engineering leadership career journey where you can make a real impact? Join our Technology team, where your technology leadership skills will thrive, and together – let's make better happen!

Your key areas of responsibility include:

• Define and evolve the technical architecture of the platform.
• Design scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems.
• Lead architectural decisions and drive long-term platform evolution.
• Solve the most challenging production and performance problems.
• Improve reliability, observability, security, and developer experience.
• Partner with engineering teams to reduce technical debt and simplify existing systems.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical discussions, and hands-on collaboration.
• Work with Product and Engineering Managers to balance technical sustainability with business delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building, modernizing, and operating distributed backend systems within the Java technology ecosystem.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, performance, observability, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience evolving large systems through incremental modernization rather than large rewrites.
• Sound technical solution evaluation and the ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs.
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
• Passion for writing simple, maintainable software and helping others do the same.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively while maintaining high engineering standards.

Benefits

• Additional health insurance and pension plans.
• Workation: work from anywhere in the EU for up to 30 days per year.
• Extra vacation days based on tenure (up to 5 additional days).
• Discounts on Telia services, including free home internet.
• Partner offers and discounts (SPA, cafes, events).
• Telia Kids Club: summer camps for employees’ children.
• Company-supported sports activities (yoga, basketball, running).
• Internal training, leadership programs and job shadowing to explore new roles.
• Monthly salary range for this position - 5400-6900 Eur (gross) + annual performance bonuses.