Senior Technical Specialist

As a Senior Technical Specialist at Nokia, you will contribute to the continuous evolution of our product by developing new features, improving performance, and ensuring long-term code quality across backend and frontend layers. Working in a complex, high-impact environment, you will apply modern software engineering practices to enhance and extend an established platform that serves critical business functions. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in an Agile setup, owning full-cycle development activities from requirement understanding and design to implementation, testing, and delivery. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality, secure, and maintainable code across the full software development. In this role, you will drive innovation, implement best practices, and contribute to a codebase that is actively growing in capability and relevance.

• Design, implement, and enhance features within an established application framework using Java(17), Spring, and Hibernate.
• Contribute to both backend logic and user interface layers, building feature-rich UIs using Apache Wicket, with layout and styling through HTML, CSS and JavaScript, while integrating with backend services and relational databases.
• Build integrations and improvements over existing APIs and services, ensuring backward compatibility and clean extensibility.
• Write unit, integration, and functional tests to validate feature behavior and ensure regression-free deliveries.
• Participate in Agile development cycles, owning deliverables end-to-end and collaborating with stakeholders for clarity and feedback.
• Work with tools like Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, and SonarQube to maintain quality, traceability, and deployment readiness.
• Analyze and optimize interactions with relational databases like MariaDB/MySQL to ensure efficiency at scale.
• Stay current with evolving frameworks and selectively introduce improvements such as cloud-native practices or AI-enhanced features where relevant.

You have:

• 8+ years of experience developing Java-based enterprise applications which works in Agile/Scrum models
• Strong hands-on skills in Java (17), Spring, and Hibernate
• Experience in building user interfaces using Apache Wicket, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• A solid foundation in REST API consumption and service design
• Experience with unit and integration testing using JUnit, Cucumber, or similar tools
• Proficiency with relational databases like MariaDB/MySQL
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, and version control with Git/Gerrit

It would be nice if you also had:

• Experience with Python or Shell scripting for developer tooling or automation
• Awareness or interest in Large Language Models (LLMs), Spring AI, or Langchain4j
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Understanding of Fixed Access (DSL/PON) technologies is a plus

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.
We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark