Company Description
Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants) and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 29 countries today, 25 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.
Working in Product Development at Wolt
At Wolt, we’re about getting things done. You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.
The behind the scenes of Wolt is run by an awesome bunch of over 700+ planners, builders, designers and data crunchers. We call ourselves Product+, as we’re the very core of Wolt’s products, tools and platforms. To build our products, we work in over 60 cross-functional, independent and autonomous teams. Teams are made up of a mix of talented individuals: engineers, designers, data scientists, analysts, and product leads. Each team takes ownership for solving customer problems in the best possible way.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.
Join us today to build Wolt together.
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Job Description
Are you ready to take part in defining a direction for a completely new initiative and face the opportunity to build a new real-time solution for 20M+ users? If you said “Yes, yes and definitely yes”, then come and join our team on a mission to build a completely new instant messaging platform.
The quality of communication between our team and our customers and partners is essential as it determines how fast and accurately we can respond to inquiries and solve emerging problems. At Wolt, we currently serve over 20M+ monthly users and they love to chat with us, a lot 😊
Challenges include real-time messaging, ensuring that messages are reliably stored and delivered, and designing and building a conversations inbox with prioritization, attachment, and push notification systems. And that’s just to start with.
Node.js + Typescript is the main backend programming language of the team, while mobile is built with Swift and Android and frontends are built in React +TypeScript.
As a Team Lead, your role is to inspire, facilitate, and empower your team to excel at what they do best, by running the weekly cycle of the team, making personal development plans, hosting regular 1on1s, working closely with the Product Lead and taking part in recruitment. You'll be at the forefront of driving the development of top-quality software and maintaining effective communication with the larger Wolt Product team.
📍This role can be based in one of our tech hubs in Helsinki or Stockholm, or you can work remotely anywhere in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Read more about our remote setup here. If you live outside of these countries - not to worry! We provide relocation support to help you make your way to Finland or Sweden.
Qualifications
To thrive in our team, you'll need solid leadership experience collaborating strongly with product teams and business stakeholders. Being flexible and comfortable working with various languages and technologies depending on the task is a big plus. However, previous hands-on software development experience in backend or mobile is definitely beneficial.
We appreciate candidates who have worked closely with product teams and senior team members, and who can handle stakeholder relationships on the business side. Experience with rollouts and fast-paced production environments is essential.
Additionally, having expertise in Kubernetes and AWS would be valuable, as we rely on these technologies for our projects. Your familiarity with these tools will be a significant asset to our team's success.
Additional Information
The position will be filled as soon as we find the right person, so make sure to apply as soon as you realize you really, really want to join us!
The compensation will be a negotiable combination of monthly pay and DoorDash RSUs. The latter makes it exceptionally easy to be excited about our company growing and doing well, as you’ll own a piece of the pie.
For any further questions about the position, you can turn to Product+ Talent Acquisition Partner - Sandra (sandra.weigt@wolt.com).
