Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.
Our engineering organization consists of many talented developers distributed across the EU and US. For day-to-day feature work, our engineers are organized into smaller cross-functional feature teams, each team owning a distinct domain. Our teams have a great deal of autonomy and are responsible for the development and architecture of their features. Teams take full ownership of their code and handle everything from concepting, design and implementation to release, maintenance and bug fixes.
About the Role
This is an opportunity to lead the engineering teams at the very core of Oura's mission. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager in Finland to support and scale our Metabolic & Consumer Backend teams.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be a multiplier for your team's impact. You will take pride in coaching talented engineers, fostering their careers, and creating an environment where they can do their best work. You will guide your team to deliver against an ambitious roadmap, owning the features that define our product and solidify Oura as a leader in personal health.
This is a chance to solve deeply technical challenges at the intersection of hardware, software, and human physiology, backed by a beloved consumer product and one of the world's richest health datasets.
Location: This is a hybrid role based in Helsinki, Oulu or Tampere, Finland. We value in-person collaboration a few days a week.
What you will do:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering their technical skills and professional development.
- Drive the technical vision and execution for critical, cross-functional projects in collaboration with Product, Design, Data Science, and other global teams.
- Own the planning, scoping, and delivery of your team's engineering efforts, ensuring we build robust, scalable, and high-quality solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance. While you won't be coding daily, your technical depth will be crucial in guiding architectural decisions, evaluating trade-offs, and unblocking your team.
- Champion engineering excellence, cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, and refine our development processes.
- Partner with recruiting to act as the hiring manager, attracting and retaining top engineering talent for your team.
- Translate complex scientific concepts and product requirements into clear technical roadmaps and deliverables.
We would love to have you on our team if you have:
- A strong technical foundation with a minimum of 6+ years in software engineering and 3+ years in a people management role.
- A technical degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- Proven experience shipping and maintaining consumer-facing mobile applications or their backend services at scale.
- A deep understanding of modern agile development methodologies and a capability to apply those in the context of agentic workflows. Solid track record of improving team processes.
- Experience hiring and building high-performing, inclusive engineering teams.
- Strong communication, delegation, and project management skills, with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from inception to launch.
- Excellent people leadership skills. You champion your team, celebrate successes, and are adept at providing direct, constructive feedback to foster growth.
- A deep-seated belief in fostering a sustainable, healthy work-life balance for yourself and your team.
- A passion for leveraging data and technology to solve complex problems, thriving in an environment with high impact and high ambiguity.
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience working asynchronously in a distributed team environment across different time zones and cultures.
- Experience building software in close collaboration with data scientists or researchers, particularly integrating machine learning models.
- Technical familiarity with digital signal processing (DSP), scientific computing, or algorithm development.
- Prior experience delivering software products in the health, wellness, fitness, or hardware domains.
- Competitive salary
- Lunch benefit
- Wellness benefit
- Flexible working hours
- Collaborative, smart teammates
- An Oura ring of your own
- Wellness Time Off
If this sounds like the next step for you, please send us your application and CV as soon as possible. Due to the holiday season, there are some delays in the application process during July 2026. We will continue reviewing applications throughout the holiday period, but most of interviews will happen in August.
Our recruitment process- Recruiter interview
- Behavioral interview with an Engineering Manager or Director
- Team road mapping exercise
- System Design exercise
- (Team interview)
- Decision
Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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Skills Required
- Minimum 6+ years in software engineering
- Minimum 3+ years in a people management role
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Proven experience shipping and maintaining consumer-facing mobile applications or their backend services at scale
- Deep understanding of modern agile development methodologies and agentic workflows
- Experience hiring and building high-performing, inclusive engineering teams
- Strong communication, delegation, and project management skills to lead cross-functional initiatives
- Excellent people leadership skills; ability to provide direct, constructive feedback and foster growth
- Technical depth to guide architectural decisions and unblock teams (not necessarily coding daily)
- Ability to translate complex scientific concepts and product requirements into technical roadmaps
- Hybrid location in Finland (Helsinki, Oulu or Tampere) with in-person collaboration a few days a week
- Experience working asynchronously in distributed teams across time zones and cultures
- Experience building software in close collaboration with data scientists or integrating machine learning models
- Technical familiarity with digital signal processing (DSP), scientific computing, or algorithm development
- Prior experience delivering software products in health, wellness, fitness, or hardware domains
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive for a midsize, high‑growth company, supported by posted role‑ and location‑based pay bands that signal structured ranges. A public equal‑pay pledge reinforces attention to fairness.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is a meaningful part of total compensation at a growing company, contributing to perceived upside over time. This ownership component complements base pay in the total rewards mix.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes substantial PTO, paid holidays, and dedicated wellness days that together exceed a basic time‑off offering. This breadth of time away supports recovery and balance.
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What We Do
Oura is an award-winning and fast-growing startup that helps people track all stages of sleep and activity using the Oura Ring and connected app. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we've helped hundreds of thousands of people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking talented individuals to join us on our journey. JOIN THE OURA TEAM Oura is full of skilled experts and we’re known to share a good laugh every now and then. We always strive to learn more and dig deeper into our research and analytics, to stay engaged and creative in everything we do. We respect our partners, privacy and the scientific method. We are a multi-disciplinary team of over 100 experts in hardware engineering, software development, machine learning, bioscience, sleep, industrial and UX design, production, marketing and customer experience. Oura Health Ltd.’s HQ and major manufacturing facilities are located in Oulu, Finland. Other locations include Helsinki and San Francisco.
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