Backend Engineers (Python)

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 Software Engineers who can develop production-level backend services in Python, to join several different Engineering Groups at Wolt.

Our Engineering organization at Wolt consists of 700+ Engineers working across 70+ product teams. Some of us work on the visible parts, making our services easy on the eye and some of us focus on the unseen magic happening behind the scenes. 

Our Engineers handle the whole development process (business logic, testing, database & data streaming, CI/CD, analytics, cloud) in an autonomous manner. They build things that are accessible and made to scale. They keep our systems in the best shape by simplifying the unnecessary complexity.

We make the decisions as a team and group of teams for our ways of working and we take architectural decisions together. Everyone plays a role in our future.

Our Engineers choose the best technologies that work for Wolt, their teams and themselves. Making good choices means finding scalable, robust technology that works in everyone’s best interests. The freedom to experiment and adopt the best technology benefits everyone. Needless to say, in such an environment there’s a lot of room for learning, teaching and growing together! 

The main stack for these roles consists for example Python (FastAPI), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, GitHub Actions, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.

At the moment, we’re particularly looking to hire for the following groups:

Consumer Group: As the name Consumer Group implies, we are responsible for building and developing Wolt’s consumer-facing products. Our mission is to master the user experience while scaling up the platform to enable delivering a mall in your pocket. We’re humbled and proud to say our apps have the industry’s highest ratings in the App Store (4.8) and Google Play (4.6). We believe that a great user experience enables healthy top-line growth. We make sure our users find the right content from the platform and convert. We are here in the long term by retaining our customers and keeping them engaged.

Currently, the Consumer Group is growing, making sure we succeed in the above-mentioned mission. We are building the next-generation last-mile e-commerce platform, designed to scale seamlessly while offering an unparalleled shopping and discovery experience. To support this vision, we are actively hiring for key areas, particularly in retrieval platform development. If you're passionate about content retrieval, ranking, and personalization at scale, this is an exciting opportunity for you.

Courier Group: The Courier Group is made up of great teams dedicated to optimizing logistics and routing, enhancing courier partner earnings, forecasting, and delivering outstanding onboarding and delivery experiences for our courier partners.

We are currently hiring for both the Supply and Demand team and the Fulfillment team. The Supply and Demand team's goal is to establish cities that are operationally efficient and convenient for courier partners, restaurants, and customers. We ensure we connect our courier partners when and where our consumers need them. Our team is currently focused around two main topics, courier partner monetary solicitation strategies and dynamic arrangement of delivery areas in the cities. We have an opportunity to serve millions of requests towards courier partners and apply decisions based on the state in an online manner.

The fulfillment team’s goal is to make our logistics platform more efficient while improving on-going delivery experience for consumers. To improve logistics efficiency the team is continuously making efforts to produce accurate travel and other fulfillment estimates of the delivery. This is achieved through building our own Maps platform and using Machine learning models to improve the accuracy constantly. While the on-going delivery experience is enhanced through more realistic & stable delivery ETA.

FinTech Group: Fintech dedicated to shaping the future of financial services at Wolt. Our Fintech teams play a critical role in enabling smooth and automated money flows for our customers, merchants, and courier partners as well as delivering financial products to them. To meet local requirements and provide the best financial solutions, our Fintech engineering teams are at the forefront of building integrations and automating financial processes for local country teams, supporting expansion in our existing markets and into new ones.

We currently have a role in the Payments Methods team- The Payment methods team is dedicated to creating a world-class payment infrastructure that delivers an exceptional customer experience. This involves developing seamless integrations with various payment providers, allowing Wolt’s customers to enjoy convenient and reliable payment options across 28 countries. In this role, you’ll work on services used daily by millions, tackling complex scalability, observability, testing, and engineering challenges beyond those you may have encountered before!

Merchant Group: The Merchant Group consists of 150+ engineers across 25+ cross-functional teams, working together to help merchants grow their businesses and streamline operations through innovative technology. Some of us focus on building seamless experiences for our merchants, while others work on the behind-the-scenes magic that makes everything run smoothly.

Currently, we are especially hiring for Wolt at Work and Drive Core teams. Wolt at Work team builds services for Wolt's business customers, making ordering and expensing easy for them and allowing them to give benefits to their employees. We build both consumer facing features, admin portal for the company account management and handle the payments, invoicing and reporting processes for the company payments.

Drive Core is a suite of products that enable our partners to use the courier partner fleet of Wolt for their own deliveries. Drive as a product is a rising star within Wolt with a lot of potential in the future. Due to the nature of the B2B domain, working in this role means facing new challenges continuously, which sometimes requires a lot of creativity. Drive works directly with purchase flow, hence working at Drive also means that you will have the opportunity to expand your knowledge across almost all important aspects of the Wolt system, e.g. merchant, venue, corporate service, logistics, etc. We also have a great team culture, where all of the engineers are fully trusted and given a lot of freedom when it comes to decision making and taking ownership.

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📍All these roles are open for candidates who are based in Finland but some of the teams are also open to hiring for Tallinn, Berlin or Stockholm. Thus if you are based either in Finland or Tallinn, Berlin or Stockholm, don’t hesitate to apply.  We offer a flexible hybrid setup: you can choose to work from the office, remotely, or a mix of both - whatever suits you best. We also offer relocation support if interested in relocating to Helsinki from another country. 

Qualifications

We are looking for Software Engineers who can develop production-level microservices in Python. We'd love to see experience with building high-load and large-scale systems in Python. We have openings for both senior engineers with extensive experience and engineers with a few years of experience.

As a member of our teams, you'll dive into the world of microservices, primarily using Python, while remaining open to exploring other modern languages, such as Kotlin and Go, in some teams. We appreciate previous experience in handling the whole development cycle all the way to production.

But what truly sets you apart is your ability to tackle big challenges together, envision scalability and availability, and dare to question conventional decisions. You’ll be successful in our teams if you quickly grasp new concepts and thrive in an environment of continuous learning. 

We put a lot of focus on the ability to collaborate well with others. We work closely with our teammates and having a good connection with team members is essential. We understand that everyone has their own unique way of communicating with others. We expect you to be yourself, express your opinions, and work together with the rest of the team.

In addition to technical expertise, we cherish those who take ownership beyond the obvious, have an insatiable hunger for knowledge, make collaborative decisions, and enthusiastically collaborate with diverse teams Woltwide. We value the unique perspectives and skills you bring to our adventure, and we're excited to see what you can achieve with us!👥🚀

Additional Information

We are hiring for a number of positions across a few different Engineering Groups. During the initial screening call our Talent Acquisition Partner will discuss with you your expectations and possible domain preferences as well as share more about different teams. After the call with a Talent Acquisition partner, the interviewing steps are conducted for a particular group in mind, with a specific team being proposed at the end of the process - that’s the moment when you’ll latest get to meet your possible Team Lead. Throughout the process, we will do our best to match your experience, skills and aspirations with the most suitable Engineering team at Wolt!