Full Stack Developer

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.  

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop, transform, manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. ​​​​​​​Sustainability, curious mindset and innovation are at the core of everything we do, and this makes us an integral part of KONE’s success.

IT Professional - KONE Corporation

This role will be responsible for contributing to full‑stack software development efforts that support real‑world applications across both front‑end and back‑end technologies. The position plays a key part in delivering high‑quality digital solutions, participating in the full software development lifecycle, and supporting the engineering practices that enable effective, scalable product development. As part of the development team, you will collaborate closely with senior engineers to build and enhance applications using modern frameworks, cloud platforms, APIs, integrations, and database technologies.

We are seeking a motivated and detail‑oriented Junior Full Stack Developer with foundational programming experience and a strong desire to learn. The ideal candidate will bring curiosity, problem‑solving ability, and hands‑on exposure to common development tools and technologies. The role requires strong analytical skills, a willingness to take ownership of tasks, and effective communication as part of a collaborative engineering environment.

Requirements:

• 6-10 years basic understanding of C#/.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, or other programming languages.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and responsive design principles.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks—React or Angular preferred.
• Understanding of REST APIs and web application concepts.
• Foundational SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with Git or similar version control systems.
• Problem-solving mindset and willingness to learn.

Preferred Required Skills:

• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) from coursework or internships.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Exposure to branching strategies and versioned environments.
• Prior project or internship experience in full stack or software development.

Professional Requirements (Education)

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• Hands-on development experience or technical certifications are also acceptable.

Business Understanding (Specific Skills, Knowledge & Behaviour)

• Customer Perspective (KONE Leadership competences): Takes customer´s perspective and focuses on those activities which are critical to customer satisfaction. Keeps up to date on current developments in the industry and constantly seeks opportunities for improvement.
• Building a vision (KONE Leadership competences): Understands KONE strategy and turns it into clear goals for own area of responsibility, creates a real sense of purpose and commitment to implement the strategy.
• Driving performance (KONE Leadership competences): Clearly communicates the team´s direction. Sets clear and challenging objectives and priorities and holds people accountable. Recognizes excellent performance and proactively manages underperformance.
• Quality focus (KONE general competences): Sets high quality standards for their personal output. Encourages others to meet high quality standards of work. Checks own output or that of others to ensure quality standards are met. Consistently delivers work of high quality. Maintains a focus on quality even when under pressure.
• Organizing and Prioritizing (KONE general competences): Organizes the information and resources required to complete projects. Recognizes the urgency and importance of tasks and obtains clarification where necessary. Approaches tasks in a systematic manner. Prioritize tasks and projects according to their relative urgency and importance. Organizes and manages their time effectively.
• Information seeking (KONE general competences): Identifies gaps in existing information and seeks out further detail. Actively seeks out all relevant information. Utilizes all available resources to obtain information. Ask the right questions to obtain the information desired as quickly as possible.
• Decision Making (KONE general competences):  Is committed to own area of responsibility and contributes to the overall business. Identifies issues and makes timely, tough, and objective decisions, also under pressure. Stand by decisions and takes responsibility for them. Take calculated risks.