Alma Developer Program

Alma Developer Program is our signature program for those who are just starting their career in tech or have already some experience.

This program is ideal for those who want hands-on experience, mentorship, and a clear path to professional growth, without the pressure to already know everything. With us you will grow to the next level!

Quick facts

• We’ve been running the program since 2017 making it better each year!
• The feedback score from previous participants was 9/10
• The program duration is nine months (April-December) and it is a paid program
• The location is either Helsinki or Tampere with flexible working hours and possibility for remote work
• Application period to 2026 Program is 19 January – 8 Feb

About Alma tech

Alma has many teams across Finland, Sweden, Baltics and Eastern Central Europe developing over 100 digital services and marketplaces; This means we use a lot of different technologies as teams can choose the most suitable tools for their work.

When building user interfaces for web ReactJS is almost a de facto JavaScript UI library of choice and its React Native counterpart chosen for mobile applications. As programming languages go, TypeScript, Go and/or Java are most used ones (with some PHP, and Ruby here and there) for web applications. Whereas Python dominates in context of data science and data engineering.

Applications are hosted in a cloud environments. We use AWS as our primary application cloud platform, which we have used already since 2012. Sometimes we use other platforms too, like Azure, or do cherry-pick specific products – like BigQuery from GCP. When designing cloud architecture, we heavily utilize serverless-first and event-driven patterns by utilizing tools like AWS Lambda and various managed/serverless products, but one can also find a lot of containers running in our cloud environment with products like AWS ECS/Fargate.

Teams in Alma have –“You build it, You run it”– DevOps culture where Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery plays an important role. Everything happens through version control systems and CI/CD products like Github Actions build, test and finally deploy the applications. We can deploy to production multiple times a day.

Why apply to Alma Developer 2026 Program?

• Real work: You will be part of a real team, doing real projects
• Mentor: You will have your own mentor supporting you on the way
• Activities: Onboarding days, workshops and get-togethers with other members of the program 
• Training: High-quality trainings in addition to learning by doing
• Community: You will be part of an international community of 600+ tech people at Alma
• Modern tools that you can influence yourself 
• Flexibility: flexible working hours, possibility to work part-time and in hybrid model 
• Certificates: The opportunity to complete an AWS or GCP certificate, for example (depends on the job role) 
• Salary: Nine months paid experience and possibility for permanent job 
• Alma culture: According to our people promise, we guarantee you friendly culture, job with purpose and lot of professional growth!

Read more about working at Alma in general or working at Alma as a developer.

Timeline

Interviews already during the application period

1–2 interviews and possibly an advance assignment.

Start during spring

The Program kicks off in April, but there is flexibility based on your schedule.

Application period 19.1. – 8.2.

Potential candidates invited to interviews on a rolling basis.

Interviews already during the application period

1–2 interviews and possibly an advance assignment.

Selection Feb – March

We’ll individually contact each candidate.

Start during spring

The Program kicks off in April, but there is flexibility based on your schedule.

Growth Paths

Don’t worry, you don’t need to choose now, we will figure out the right growth path for you together! Below you can see some common examples with descriptions.

Cloud

Design & Build AWS Architectures

If not already, you’ll become strong believer in Infrastructure as Code: You’re not afraid of YAML or JSON (for example when working with AWS CloudFormation). You might already be familiar with programming languages like TypeScript or Python, so you can venture into defining cloud resources using AWS CDK .

Backend

Core business logic, APIs & integrations

You know at least one of the following programming languages TypeScript, Go, Java, Kotlin or Ruby which you will use to build applications into cloud environment that often query data either from relational or nosql databases. You may often utilize AWS SDK to integrate with other cloud resources.

 

Frontend

Build Client-Side Web Apps for Browser

HTML, CSS and JavaScript (TypeScript) are your friends for building accessible & performant user interfaces. You know your way around browser’s developer tools. In addition to browser technologies, you have a basic understanding of NodeJS/NPM ecosystem. You’re familiar with UI libraries suchs as ReactJS.p

UX

Design Digital User Experiences

You’ll be working a lot with tools such as Figma and Affinity or Adobe , but you understand your role is not just about drawing pretty pixels: It’s about defining a holistic end-user experience for our digital services. You’ll be thinking a lot about accessibility, ease of use and how to best support the goals of the people who are using our services.

Fullstack

Connect UIs to Backends

Besides backend programming, you’re able to work with ReactJS frontends and connect them with backends using RESTful APIs.

Mobile UI

Build Mobile Apps

In addition to more traditional frontend development, you will be using React Native to build mobile applications for iOS and Android.

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