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We're building a fully featured European cloud computing platform—with everything one needs to run, scale, and deploy applications and workloads. In addition, our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy.\nWe’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big! Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.\n\nWhy VerdaCash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).\n\nProfitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.\n\n31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.\n\nAn opportunity with make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.\n\nPracticalitiesHybrid mode: This role requires presence in our Helsinki office 3 days per week. Don’t worry - you won’t be alone or hangry there. 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