Cybersecurity threats are growing more sophisticated every day. Organizations face a noisy, complex risk landscape where employees are often the first and last line of defense. At Hoxhunt, we believe the way to fight back is by building products that don’t just react to attacks, but help people and companies build resilience in the face of them.

That’s where you come in.

Your Mission

As a senior software engineer, you’ll shape a greenfield product on its journey to market fit. Your design decisions and technical choices will define the path forward for the product. This is a great opportunity to have an impact on how organizations around the world understand security threats, navigate the risk landscape, and strengthen their security culture.

Your Role

You will join a startup-like team inside one of Europe’s fastest-growing cybersecurity scaleups, where engineers play a defining role in shaping the product. From day one, you will lead the architecture evolution and delivery of high-impact systems.

You’ll operate comfortably at system scale, while keeping a product mindset. You’ll be a key technical contributor for the team, mentoring others through example, driving technical direction, and raising the bar — all while staying hands-on and focused in shipping product improvements. You’ll also influence architecture and have impact across Hoxhunt engineering.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end architecture and delivery of high-throughput, event-driven services and APIs.
• Design, plan, and ship resilient features that scale — security, performance, and reliability in mind.
• Co-lead technical design and reviews, define engineering standards, and raise the bar — while helping the team ship with quality and speed in mind.
• Improve how we work: evolve processes, collaboration, tooling, observability, and automation.
• Partner with product to turn customer problems into simple, world-class solutions.
• Design a platform to transform noisy, messy, constantly changing security signals into actionable insights.

Who We’re Looking For

A product-minded senior engineer who operates comfortably at system scale, mentors others, and thrives in a growing scale-up. You balance shipping fast with long-term thinking and enjoy turning complex problems into clear, maintainable designs. You care deeply about what is best for the customers, the product, the team, and the company — and you know how to prioritize accordingly.

Skills You Need to Succeed in This Role

• 8+ years building and operating backend services at scale, especially distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Extensive full-stack experience, with particular expertise in distributed messaging and streaming systems such as Kafka or Pub/Sub, and relational databases.
• Strong API and data modeling skills.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure, containers, and IaC.
• Proven track record mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team.
• Familiarity with our tech stack: TypeScript, React, NodeJS, GraphQL.

How You Work

• You care about making an impact and take ownership of your work from idea to execution.
• You focus on delivering real value — not just writing code, but solving the right problems.
• You are comfortable with change and can adapt while keeping momentum in the right direction.
• You think critically, break down complex problems, and enjoy working through solutions with others.
• You are curious by nature and always looking for ways to grow and improve.

Why Join Hoxhunt?

At Hoxhunt, you will have the rare chance to build the foundation of a product that does not yet exist in the market. Every architectural decision you make, every system you design, and every line of code you write will carry weight and shape the direction of the product for years to come.

You will be working on problems at scale: high-throughput, event-driven systems that must be secure, reliable, and performant. The product you help build will directly contribute to how organizations understand the evolving threat landscape to strengthen their defenses against attacks that change daily.

You will join a team of ambitious engineers who share your passion for solving complex problems and care deeply about building something meaningful together.

Most importantly, your work will matter. The systems you design will directly help protect people against cyber threats every day. That impact, multiplied across millions of users worldwide, is what makes this role both challenging and uniquely rewarding.

Our Recruitment Process

1. Meeting with Talent Acquisition (30min, remote)
2. Meeting with your future Team Lead (60min, remote)
3. Assignment and Panel Discussion (90min, onsite)
4. Meeting Technical Leadership (30min, remote)
5. References

Ready to apply?

If you are excited by the idea of shaping a brand-new product at scale, while solving problems that truly matter in the ever-changing world of cyber threats, we would love to hear from you.

Hoxhunt in a nutshell

Hoxhunt was founded in 2016 by four visionaries. Today we are a team of more than 200 amazing hoxhunters advancing one of the hottest scale-up companies in the human risk management category, with locations in Finland, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Hoxhunt is one of the fastest growing software companies in Finland, premiering in the Deloitte Fast 50 rankings for three consecutive years.

Hoxhunt educates employees on how to protect themselves and their employers against malicious cyberattacks. Our core belief is that the best way to do this is through frequent, personalized, and behavior-changing cybersecurity training. We have been featured in CIO Magazine, Forbes, Inc., EU-Startups, and many more publications.

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Department

Tech

Role

Software Development

Locations

Helsinki

Remote status

Hybrid

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