Software Development Consultant (early career)

Are you looking to grow not only as a software developer, but also as a trusted advisor? At Columbia Road, we're looking for talented developers to help businesses grow while you grow your career. If you've already gained some hands-on experience in professional software development and are eager to grow into a skilled consultant in a low-hierarchy, supportive environment, we would love to hear from you. Let’s find your Road!

• Role: Software Developer (Associate Consultant or Consultant)

• Focus: Help businesses grow by building and improving digital sales channels and systems for our clients.

• Environment: Low-hierarchy, supportive, community-led, with an emphasis on transparency and trust.

• Team: Varying teams built around each individual client’s need. Cross-competence collaboration.

• Ideal Candidate: A couple years of professional web development (full-stack) experience, eager to learn and make an impact. The position is also suitable for someone finishing their studies. Fluent in English and Finnish.

• Location: Helsinki or Tampere, no visa sponsorships offered.

• Salary & benefits: Monthly gross salary 3000-4500€, depending on your experience and stage of potential studies. Extensive benefits package, including e.g. comprehensive healthcare insurance, allowance for sports/massage/commuting and compensation for doing social good & open source projects to name a few.

Columbia Road is the go-to consulting partner for businesses that want to sell better. Excelling in both commercial operations and scalable technology, we build seamless and effective customer journeys for measurable impact. In each of our projects, we focus on generating more revenue and more customers for our clients, working in cross-competence teams made up of the brightest minds in digital commerce.

As a community-led company, we believe in giving a lot of responsibility and freedom to our employees. Instead of line managers and red tape, we offer the tools and resources to all Roadies to make the best possible decisions for their own job and for our community. We offer you a diverse and inclusive workplace, and your fellow Roadies will ensure that you’ll feel comfortable from day one.

As a software developer, you are interested in what happens under the hood of modern digital sales channels. You’ll get to work together with other Columbia Road consultants in a cross-competence team, building and growing new digital businesses for our customers in various fields of business. This means you may collaborate daily with designers, digital marketers, strategy consultants, data & AI specialists as well as our clients' stakeholders and team. You will be supported in your learning by peers in both development and other domains, and you’ll have the ability to create real impact in our clients’ businesses.
Your motivation comes from the results and impact your solution creates, rather than the technical beauty of the code. For us, technology is a tool to create business impact for our clients, and we are agnostic in choosing whichever tools best solve the challenge. This can mean widely used programming languages and frameworks, but also different CRM, CMS and ecommerce solutions that we customise and integrate to our clients’ other systems. We have listed some examples further below.
If you're looking for a workplace where you get a lot of responsibility and where you get to learn new things fast from more experienced peers, you'll find it here. You will get to grow with us, nurture your own ambitions and learn new skills within digital sales.

• You are a student in the final year of your studies, or have graduated within the past couple of years.

• You have already gained professional work experience related to software development. For example, you may have worked part time in a professional setting during your studies.

• You have a good understanding of the basic principles of both backend and frontend software development.

• You’re agnostic in your tech-approach and are open to using a wide array of languages, frameworks, CRM and CMS systems and ecommerce platforms, selecting the tools that best match our clients’ needs.

  • Some of the most common languages we come across in our work are JavaScript, Typescript, PHP, Java and C#. We hope you are comfortable with more than one of these.

  • Other technologies seen as an advantage include: Clojure, Scala, Python, Go as well as any experience working with CMS, CRM and ecommerce platforms.

• You are self-driven, proactive and want to continuously learn new things.

• You understand the basics of digitalisation and you approach problems in an analytical manner.

• You would love to work with challenging client cases supported by a diverse community of digital sales professionals.

• You are comfortable communicating matters related to your own work and you enjoy working with other people in an agile environment – it’s not a problem for you to present your own ideas to a small group of people from time to time, for example in a workshop.

• You have a “get things done” attitude towards your work.

• You live (or plan to move) within commuting distance of Helsinki or Tampere and are open to working on-site according to client needs.
  

• You are fluent in English and Finnish. 

Our recruitment process typically involves 2-3 interviews where we learn about your skills and what motivates you. You'll discover more about Columbia Road and meet various Roadies along the way. After our discussions, we'll reach out to your chosen references. 

This is a permanent, full-time position with a flexible start date from August 2026. We hope to hear from you soon!

A monthly gross salary of 3000-4500 euros, depending on your experience and stage of potential studies. In addition, we offer extensive benefits:

• A community-led organisation with a high level of autonomy

• A diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace

• Option to buy stocks of the company through the common employee share program

• Recurring training and learning sessions to support your professional growth

• Regular mentoring with a Roadie of your own choosing - or several!

• Offices in downtown Helsinki (with gym and pool) and Tampere

• A wide selection of quality tools to use for your work (laptop, phone etc.)

• Extensive health care services, including dental and mental health

• Insurance for travel and free-time

• Lunch benefit

• Phone subscription benefit

• Weekly breakfasts and healthy daily refreshments

• Flexible sports, culture, commuting and massage benefit

• Recurring Roadie-ideated events and activities

• Childcare services when your child falls ill

• A possibility to book the office for private events during the weekends

• Compensation for working on open source or social programs in your free time