Engineering Team Lead, Platform
Engineering
Helsinki, Finland
Full-time
About Wolt
At Wolt, we create technology that brings joy, simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world. In 2014 we started with delivery of restaurant food. Now we’re building the delivery of (almost) everything and you’ll find us in over 500 cities in 30 countries around the world. In 2022 we joined forces with DoorDash and together we keep on dreaming big and expanding across the globe.
Working at Wolt isn’t always easy, but it’s definitely exciting. Here you’ll learn more, build more, and ship more than in most other companies. You’ll be challenged a lot, but also have a lot of fun on the way. So, if you’re a self-starter with drive and entrepreneurial spirit, this could be the ride of your life.
About the Team
The Storage Access Abstractions team bridges the gap between Product Engineering’s evolving needs and infrastructure capabilities by building database-agnostic, developer-friendly APIs that simplify access to online data at scale. Our mission is to enable product engineers to focus on solving business problems by providing a seamless and intuitive stateful data access layer, without needing to manage the complexity of robust, secure, and high-performance storage primitives.
We’re currently building the next generation online data storage abstraction layers on top of scalable distributed databases (including Cassandra) to serve engineers across Doordash + Wolt globally. The team is at a pivotal phase, transitioning from architectural design and deep development to taking the first steps towards production readiness. We are just getting started, and there is still a lot to build and define, both in shaping the team and the product!
About the Role
We’re now hiring an Engineering Manager to lead building next-generation storage access abstraction layers. You will lead a team of highly skilled engineers in designing, building and optimizing the new platform and ensuring smooth developer onboarding, constant improvement and optimization. Doordash and Wolt operate at significant scale and are growing rapidly: performance, availability and scalability are central to the team's work.
Your team will be responsible for building and maintaining an abstraction layer in front of distributed storage systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability. You will help shape the future of storage abstraction, driving innovation in database efficiency, fault tolerance, and operational simplicity, allowing engineers across DoorDash and Wolt to focus on delivering great product experiences. You will collaborate with infrastructure and product engineers across global teams, including those in the US and EU timezones, to ensure the platform meets their evolving storage and scalability needs.
You will report to the Director of the Core Group in Wolt’s Product Organization, collaborating closely with our peers at Doordash.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
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Lead and mentor a team of senior engineers focused on scaling and optimizing distributed databases and abstractions.
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Drive architectural decisions for high-performance, fault-tolerant data abstractions built on top of NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra).
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Collaborate cross-functionally with platform, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure seamless data access, consistency, and reliability.
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Facilitate stakeholder management and build a relationship with our customers internally spanning across timezones.
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Bring expertise in building and operating high scale systems and open source softwares with a focus on reliability, scalability, efficiency and ease of use
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Build, sustain, and grow a diverse team to address the growing needs of the organization
We’re excited about you because…
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You have 5+ years of experience in backend/infrastructure engineering, with 2+ years leading engineering teams.
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You have hands-on experience with one or more large-scale databases ( Cassandra, DynamoDB, or similar).
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You have a strong track record of hiring, onboarding, and mentoring Senior Engineers.
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You excel in technical leadership, providing guidance in architecture decisions, performance improvements, and team growth.
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You are execution-driven, with a proven ability to deliver large-scale distributed storage solutions in fast-moving environments.
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You treat infrastructure as a product — obsess over the developer experience, ensure the platform is intuitive, easy to adopt and delivers measurable value to internal customers.
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You champion a culture of customer obsession and feedback-driven development, ensuring the team deeply understands and responds to the needs of engineers relying on the platform.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
Engineering at Wolt
We build the technologies powering Wolt. Our apps connect millions of customers, hundreds of thousands of courier partners, and tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. We now operate in 30 countries, 500+ cities and we’re growing fast.
We build at scale, are laser-focused on building world-class customer experiences, and do things with heart. Dive with us into the complex problems of building the delivery of (almost) everything.
What we're working on
On this journey towards delivery of (almost) everything, we’re building a wide suite of products — from the systems powering our own Wolt Market stores, to our support tooling, and even fintech solutions.
Get a sneak peek into what we’re working on through our Wolt Tech blog, Wolt Tech Talks podcast, and more from the link below.
We build beautiful products, the Wolt way
We like to do things well and move fast. Doing that requires less red tape and more trust.
At Wolt, every product team has the resources, talent, and autonomy they need to deliver the task at hand. This way our teams stay close to their customers. They work how they see best, and in return, they’re responsible for seeking alignment and owning the outcome.
Our culture
At Wolt, you’ll learn more, build more, and ship more than in most other companies.
You’ll be challenged a lot, but also have a lot of fun on the way. All of which comes from working with passionate, caring, down-to-earth and super-smart people.
“Wolt is a great environment for screwing up, learning from that, growing, and moving on to do things better. We never blame anyone for mistakes, we just make sure we can learn from them”
- Kimbo, Software Engineer
Engineering at Wolt
We build the technologies powering Wolt. Our apps connect millions of customers, hundreds of thousands of courier partners, and tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. We now operate in 30 countries, 500+ cities and we’re growing fast.
We build at scale, are laser-focused on building world-class customer experiences, and do things with heart. Dive with us into the complex problems of building the delivery of (almost) everything.
What we're working on
On this journey towards delivery of (almost) everything, we’re building a wide suite of products — from the systems powering our own Wolt Market stores, to our support tooling, and even fintech solutions.
Get a sneak peek into what we’re working on through our Wolt Tech blog, Wolt Tech Talks podcast, and more from the link below.
We build beautiful products, the Wolt way
We like to do things well and move fast. Doing that requires less red tape and more trust.
At Wolt, every product team has the resources, talent, and autonomy they need to deliver the task at hand. This way our teams stay close to their customers. They work how they see best, and in return, they’re responsible for seeking alignment and owning the outcome.
Our culture
At Wolt, you’ll learn more, build more, and ship more than in most other companies.
You’ll be challenged a lot, but also have a lot of fun on the way. All of which comes from working with passionate, caring, down-to-earth and super-smart people.
“Wolt is a great environment for screwing up, learning from that, growing, and moving on to do things better. We never blame anyone for mistakes, we just make sure we can learn from them”
- Kimbo, Software Engineer
