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 R&D brings together top talent from different disciplines into an industry-leading product and technology organization. We thrive in solving complex customer challenges, connecting legacy with the latest technologies, across hardware and software engineering. In fact, roughly half of our R&D roles are in software. Agile ways of working mean that we are better able to meet our customers’ rapidly evolving needs for speed and innovation, in a global environment.

Technology and innovation careers - KONE Corporation

We are now looking for a

Senior / Expert Full Stack Cloud SW Developer, Digital Services Experience Development

Join our Digital Services, SW organization in Espoo, Finland, where we build and operate platforms and solutions across IoT Platform, Digital Services, Analytics Platform, and the Technician Experience Platform. We work in a hybrid model so there’s possibility to work remotely couple of days a week.

A day in the life of KONE Elevator Technician in 2035 https://youtu.be/FEimBC0N-Tw?si=K_zs50V6v5GpYLdL

In this role, you will build cloud-native digital services and user experiences that empower technicians in the field—enabling smoother workflows, reliable experiences, and efficient service operations. The ideal profile is a full stack developer with strong web + backend engineering skills, where Kotlin knowledge is an advantage.

What you’ll do

·       Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end digital services for the 24/7 Connected Services

·       Build scalable web applications using modern frontend frameworks and best practices

·       Develop and evolve backend services and APIs integrating with connected services and enterprise systems

·       Design and implement RESTful APIs and service integrations with a production-grade mindset

·       Contribute to cloud architecture and ensure solutions are secure, scalable, efficient, and reliable

·       Work with CI/CD pipelines to enable frequent and reliable releases

·       Collaborate across product, UX, backend, and platform teams to deliver impactful solutions

What we’re looking for

·       Strong hands-on experience as a Full Stack Developer (web + backend)

·       Frontend experience with React / Angular / Next.js

·       Strong skills in TypeScript / JavaScript

·       Backend development experience (e.g., Node.js, Kotlin or similar technologies) and solid understanding of API design

·       Experience with database systems (SQL/NoSQL)

·       Experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitLab or Github

·       Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and production workloads

·       Understanding of secure coding and responsive design

·       Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Appreciated

·       Kotlin knowledge, especially for backend development

·       Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / Google Cloud)

·       Exposure to cloud-native services and architectures

For additional information, please contact Chapter Lead, Maintenance Experience Markus Mettälä [email protected]

We offer

You will be working with highly dynamic teams significantly investing time and effort on how we develop our products, services, and solutions. You get a chance to work with and participate in further developing products that are used by billions of users daily. Products that are widely recognized by their quality and innovation.

Want to join the #PeopleFlow?

If you think this could be your next inspiring challenge, please submit your application as soon as possible via our Careers site latest by September 13th, 2026.

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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on https://kone.com/global/en/careers.html