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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead at Hoxhunt'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead at Hoxhunt

- **Company:** Hoxhunt
- **Location:** Helsinki, Finland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hoxhunt/2b56856c-4a81-45f5-a129-386e6f230c19

## Job description

## Our mission and why it matters

We are on a mission to make humans the strongest security layer. Human risk remains one of the biggest vulnerabilities and traditional awareness training is not enough. We take a different approach by combining AI-driven personalization, real threat detection, and behavioral science to actively protect people and organizations. We don't just simulate risks. We build the tools that detect and stop them.

## Why this role matters

You will lead engineering for our data-intensive reporting and integration products, building the core capabilities that enable our Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) partners to scale efficiently to serve millions of users.

## What you’ll own and drive

- Delivery leadership and product partnership: Turn product strategy into delivery plans and shipped outcomes by keeping scope sharp, quality high, and momentum constant. Work closely with Product Management every day to solve real customer problems and deliver value.
- Technical direction and engineering maturity: Make pragmatic architecture decisions that help our partners operate efficiently at scale, and raise the bar for operational excellence. Build alongside your team in our production stack (Node.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, MongoDB, K8s and GCP), maintaining sharp technical judgement without becoming a bottleneck.
- People leadership: Own team development, performance management, and hiring for a growing team of 8+ talented engineers.

What success looks like In your first 3 months you'll build deep context of our people, product, delivery, operations, and establish strong trust with your team and product partners, and take active ownership of the team management. By month 6 you'll be confidently shaping roadmaps, driving technical solutions, and demonstrably elevating the technical and operational maturity of your team.

What makes you thrive here You have:

- Proven hands-on Tech Lead or Engineering Manager experience with a product team. You lead by example and by building, not from a distance.
- A strong track record of shipping and running large-scale, data-intensive SaaS systems with high standards for availability, latency and data quality.
- Full-stack competence in our tech stack (Node.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, MongoDB, K8s, GCP) and experience operating production systems (observability, incident response, performance optimization).
- Strong product and engineering judgment: you can balance speed with sustainability and know exactly when to simplify.
- Demonstrated ability to raise the bar: mentoring engineers, setting high standards, and driving a delivery system that scales with the team.
- The backbone to push back: you comfortably challenge product, peers, and your own manager when the customer or business is being shortchanged.
- Practical, production-grade AI/LLM engineering experience (or strong proof you can ramp fast). You know how to ship AI-driven capabilities safely, and you actively use AI tools to multiply your own hands-on contributions: designing and optimizing the harnesses that allow agents to work optimally, thinking in terms feedback loops and continuous improvement.

Who you’ll work with You will report to VP of Engineering and work closely with Product Management, Design, and lead your own dedicated team of eight engineers. This is a highly collaborative, team-focused environment where we value candid feedback and extreme ownership. You will act as the critical link between engineering execution and business strategy, ensuring your team has the clarity and support to build world-class products.

## What you can expect from us

Compensation: Monthly salary of €7,000 - €8,500 depending on your experience. You may notice varying salary ranges for roles with similar titles across Hoxhunt; this is because each range is grounded in our role leveling and reflects the seniority, scope, and impact expectations required for that specific role and team, and we operate with a low hierarchy. Working ways: We work in a flexible, but hybrid work setting. You are expected to work from the Helsinki office 2-3 days a week. High performance meets high humanity: We bring an incredibly driven, high-impact energy to our work, but we leave our egos at the door. You will be surrounded by wildly talented, dedicated colleagues in an environment built on extreme kindness, support, and psychological safety. Authentic trust & autonomy: We hire great people and trust them to do great work. You will find a culture free of micromanagement, giving you the autonomy to take real ownership, drive impact, and shape things early on. A product you can be proud of: It is incredibly rare in cybersecurity to build a product that end-users genuinely love. You will join a team making a real, measurable impact against cybercrime. The perks that matter: Alongside this amazing community, you will enjoy extensive healthcare with other benefits and our beautiful new office in Helsinki (complete with a gym and swimming pool!).

Recruitment process

- TA Screening Call (30 min)
- Meeting VP of Engineering (60 min, remote)
- Take-home Assignment (max 6 hours, independently)
- Panel Interview (60-90 min, onsite)
- Final Alignment Call (30 min, remote)
- Reference Checks

## About Hoxhunt

Hoxhunt was founded in 2016 by four visionaries. Today we are a global team of +300 amazing Hoxhunters advancing a truly AI-native category leader in human risk management, with key hubs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Finland. We are proud to be an award-winning, fast-growing software company, recognized by G2 and Gartner, named to TIME Magazine's list of the World's Top EdTech Companies, and featured for our innovation in major publications like Fast Company, TechCrunch, Forbes, and Inc. As a multi-product company, Hoxhunt goes beyond traditional security awareness. We don't just educate employees through frequent, personalized, and behavior-changing cybersecurity training - we also actively build real threat intelligence and response tools that protect organizations against malicious cyberattacks every single day. Be among the first to know about our open positions. Drop your details in our Talent Community, and we will reach out when there is a match!

## About Hoxhunt

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hoxhunt provides an AI-powered human risk management platform that transforms employees into a company’s strongest defense against cyber threats through personalized phishing simulations, security awareness training, and incident orchestration.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Raised $42.9M total; Series B in 2022)
- **Headquarters**: Helsinki, Finland (additional hubs in Minneapolis, USA and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Mika Aalto (CEO), Pasi Salo, Karri Kurunmäki, Pyry Åvist (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Cybersecurity – Human Risk Management / Security Awareness Training
- **Target Customers**: B2B Enterprise (notable customers include DocuSign, Airbus, AES, Schindler, Nokia)
- **Mission**: “To protect individuals and organizations by focusing on the largest risks causing cyber breaches and incidents.” Their core belief: “Security Starts With People.”

## Products & Services
- **Human Risk Management Platform** – An AI-native, integrated suite that combines:
  - **Security Awareness & Phishing Training**: Automated, gamified micro-trainings delivered via email, Slack, or Teams.
  - **Phishing Simulations**: AI-generated, personalized simulations that mimic real-world attacks.
  - **Incident Orchestration (SOC Automation)**: AI-powered analysis and triage of user-reported phishing threats, reducing false-positive workload for security teams.
  - **Analytics & Dashboarding**: Measures behavior change, engagement rates, and risk reduction across the organization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**: 
  - **Total Funding**: $42.9M (Series A $3M from Dawn Capital & Icebreaker in 2018; Series B $40M from Level Equity Management in 2022)
  - **Annual Revenue (FY 2024)**: €15.2M (per Craft.co)
  - **Users**: 4M+ globally (as of 2026)
  - **Monthly Activities**: 7M simulations, 500k analyzed threats
  - **Engagement Rate**: 90%+ | **Failure Reduction**: 75% lower failure rates | **Detect Rate**: 20%+
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Level Equity Management, Dawn Capital, Icebreaker
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Deloitte Fast50: 4,284% growth over four years (2021)
  - Named G2 Enterprise Grid Leader (2025), Gartner Representative Provider for SBCP, Frost & Sullivan Competitive Strategy Leadership Award
  - 40+ internal promotions in one year
  - Headcount: 270+ employees (20+ nationalities) across three continents

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category Pioneer**: Co-created the Security Behavior Change and Human Risk Management category, moving beyond traditional SAT (Security Awareness Training).
- **High Engagement**: Gamified, personalized training achieves 90%+ engagement rates, far exceeding industry averages.
- **AI-Native Platform**: Automates simulation generation, threat analysis, and training delivery, reducing manual effort for security teams.
- **Enterprise Credibility**: Trusted by global brands like Airbus, Nokia, and DocuSign.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current Priorities**: Scaling the Human Risk Management platform, expanding into new geographies (notably APAC with a new Singapore hub), and deepening AI capabilities to stay ahead of evolving phishing tactics.
- **Growth Direction**: Continue to lead the security behavior change category, drive measurable risk reduction for large enterprises, and grow the user base (targeting millions more users).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “High performance, without the sharp edges. High ambition, without the ego.” Emphasis on autonomy, trust, radical candor, and continuous learning.
- **Work Setup**: Hybrid/remote varies by role and location; most roles include regular weekly office time. Main hubs in Helsinki, Minneapolis, and a growing APAC hub in Singapore.
- **Office Perks (Helsinki)**: Office dogs, coffee bar, building gym & pool, sauna, and social activities (Padel, Dungeons & Dragons, Hoxfit).
- **Career Growth**: 40+ promotions in the last year; strong internal mobility and learning culture.
- **Hiring Process**: Typically includes an initial chat with Talent Acquisition, a meeting with the Hiring Manager, and a final panel interview (often on-site). Some roles include a take-home assignment. Process aims to be efficient and transparent.

## Sources
1. [hoxhunt.com/careers](https://hoxhunt.com/careers)
2. [hoxhunt.com/about](https://hoxhunt.com/about)
3. [hoxhunt.com/](https://hoxhunt.com/)
4. [craft.co/hoxhunt](https://craft.co/hoxhunt)
5. [topworkplaces.com/company/hoxhunt](https://topworkplaces.com/company/hoxhunt)

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