01 / The Problem Worth Solving
Enterprise Software is Broken
Not because of bad people. Because of broken incentives and missing context.
Consulting Sells Hours
The longer a project takes, the more the consultancy earns. Everyone knows this. Nobody fixes it. The result: software that costs too much, takes too long, and nobody understands once the consultants leave.
AI Tools Skip the Why
Current AI dev tools generate code fast. But they have no idea why the code should exist, whether it meets compliance requirements, or what happens after deployment. Speed without purpose is just faster waste.
Regulated Industries Are Stuck
Banks, hospitals, defense contractors. They need AI-driven development but can't adopt tools with no audit trail. Their compliance teams block it. Rightly so. We're building what they actually need.
02 / What We Build
Three Loops. One Platform.
Taiga connects business intent to production software through three loops. Every step governed by policies, standards, and business goals.
Learn
Capture Business Intent
Conversational intake replaces 50-page RFPs. AI generates living specifications. Compliance rules codified up front.
Build
AI-Driven Delivery
Agent swarms build while your team reviews critical decisions. Every line validated against policies in real-time.
Run
Observe and Improve
Production monitoring feeds back into the next cycle. Continuous compliance. Every change traceable to a business goal.
Govern
Cross-Cutting Governance
Business goals, policies, and standards govern every loop. Not a layer on top. Woven into every agent action, every decision, every output.
03 / The Team
Operators, Not First-Timers
Four founders who've built, scaled, and exited enterprise tech companies. You'd be one of the first people to join them.
Mikko Laakkonen
CEOSerial entrepreneur. Grew a Nordic cloud company from early stage to 150 people as CTO. Aalto EMBA. Now leads vision, fundraising, and go-to-market.
Teemu Ijäs
CTOSystem architect. Deep cloud infrastructure and AI expertise. Built platform engineering practices and shipped products used by enterprise clients. Architects the Taiga platform end-to-end.
Henri Grönlund
Chair & CCOCEO of the Year 2020. Built a cloud company from zero to €27M revenue, bootstrapped and profitable. Now leads enterprise sales and governance.
Anton Floor
CAIO20+ years in the industry. Saw every wave from virtualization to public cloud to AI. Now defines how autonomous agents work within enterprise guardrails.
04 / How We Work
Finnish Pragmatism
Directcommunication.Substanceoverstyle.Saywhatyoumean,shipwhatyoupromise,don'twasteeachother'stime.
Ship, Then Iterate
We trust people to make decisions and own outcomes. If it's reversible, you don't need permission. If you're wrong, we fix it together. No approval chains. No committee theater.
Protect the Maker
Default to async. Write things down. Meetings are 25 minutes and only happen when writing won't work. Your calendar is yours.
Small Team, High Trust
No middle management. Everyone ships. Titles describe responsibility, not authority. You'll work directly with founders and make decisions that matter from week one.
Outcomes, Not Hours
We don't track hours or monitor screens. We look at what you shipped and what you learned. Work when and where you do your best work.
05 / What You Get
The Practical Stuff
No ping-pong tables. No unlimited PTO that nobody takes. Here's what we actually offer.
Real Equity
0.5% for early engineers. Not a token gesture. You're joining a company that's already closed an angel round and is raising pre-seed at €20M valuation. Actual upside.
Helsinki HQ, Your Schedule
We have an office in Helsinki and prefer working together most days. But we're adults. Need to work from home? Work from home. No performative presence.
Whatever You Need
Top-tier hardware of your choice, any software license, Claude/Copilot/Cursor. Whatever makes you productive. No procurement process. Just ask.
Sustainable Pace
Finnish employment contract with full benefits. We don't glorify overwork. We have families, hobbies, and lives outside Taiga. You should too.
Your Name on It
Employee number five or six. Your code in production at enterprise customers. Your architectural decisions shaping the platform for years. Not a cog-in-the-machine job.
06 / Our Stack
What You Will Work With
Modern stack, no legacy. You'll have real influence over technology choices.
Frontend
React 19, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn/UI, TypeScript
Backend
Fastify 5, Drizzle ORM, TypeScript
Database
PostgreSQL 17
AI Gateway
AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Python
Infrastructure
AWS (ECS Fargate, Cognito, S3, CloudFront), Terraform
CI/CD
GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise (EMU)
07 / Open Roles
What We Need Right Now
Small team. Ships fast. Every hire changes the company.
Helsinki · Full-time
Full-Stack Engineer
~€8,000/month + 0.5% equity
Build and ship across the full stack: React frontend, Fastify APIs, PostgreSQL, AWS infrastructure. Your work spans agent orchestration, the governance engine, and core platform features. 5+ years experience. TypeScript daily. AI tools as a natural part of how you work.