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
We are looking for an experienced Senior Python Backend Engineer to join our growing Platform Services team!
The Platform Services team enables us to move faster with more certainty on security and cross-team technical challenges, whilst minimizing the need for strike forces and other more disruptive methods to the product teams at large. It also creates a more secure Wolt by developing key features and moves ownership from a few colleagues to a collective team. This means the team has ownership over key components at Wolt. The team’s mission is to help other teams succeed, and drive down the amount of reinventing the wheel. This is a team that aims to create high-quality components that can be shared across the Wolt application teams. Our main driver is quality since we build critical services and libraries that affect the entire operation. This brings a lot of interesting projects, like making sure we maintain backwards compatibility, services are running 24/7 and we are up-to-date with everything that is happening in the company.
The team is a power squad of five experienced engineers currently and it works closely with our Platform, Developer Experience, and Security teams, among other product teams. In this role, you will be developing services and libraries that are used across the platform, and you can have a big impact on the future development of these solutions.
📍This role will be based in Helsinki, or you can work remotely anywhere in Finland. Read more about our remote setup here.
Qualifications
👉 We are looking for an individual who has significant experience but still yearns to grow further. We want you to be already proficient with Python programming language but also eager to learn and jump into projects using other languages.
👉You have a good overall understanding of AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, and different databases - you know the full impact of large deployments.
👉 You know what it takes to develop top-quality software and achieve ambitious goals together. We expect you to be a good communicator, willing to collaborate with people outside of your own team, be a product-oriented and proactive problem solver willing to bring up issues in a constructive manner to the team and the Wolt Product team at large.
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 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 - Anna Pivovar (anna.pivovar@wolt.com).
