Developer & Designer

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.