(Senior) Backend Engineers (Python)

We are looking for Software Engineers who can develop production-level backend services in Python, to join several different Engineering Groups at Wolt. We have exciting opportunities for senior engineers ready for their next big adventure, as well as for engineers with a few years of experience looking to take the next step in their careers.

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.

Consumer Group is expanding, and we're focused on ensuring the success of our mission. We currently have an open Senior Engineer position on our Cart and Checkout team. The team plays a pivotal role in shaping the user experience for over 40 million users across 30 countries. We work on impactful features such as group orders, double orders, and tips, while also owning the order experience (Order XP), a critical tier 0 service. This position offers exciting challenges in scalability and opportunities to collaborate on SRE topics.

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.

Data Group: As the scale of Wolt has rapidly grown, we are introducing new users to our data platform every day and want this to become a coherent and streamlined experience for all users, whether they’re Analysts, Data Scientists working with our data or teams bringing new data to the platform from their applications. We aim to both provide new platform capabilities across batch, streaming, orchestration and data integration to serve our user’s needs, as well as building an intuitive interface for them to solve their use cases without having to learn the details of the underlying tools.Our primary programming language of choice is Python. We deploy our systems in Kubernetes and AWS. We use Datadog for observability (logging and metrics). We have built our data warehouse on top of Snowflake and orchestrate our batch processes with Airflow and Dagster. We are heavy users of Kafka and Kafka Connect. Our CI/CD pipelines rely on GitHub actions and Argo Workflows. 

For Data Group, we have open roles to multiple teams for engineers based either in Helsinki or Berlin.

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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. 

Our humble expectations

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!👥🚀

Next steps

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!