Hey, you look like you might be our new ย Senior Search Backend Engineer (Python)
Engineering
Stockholm, Swedenย ยท Helsinki, Finlandย ยท Berlin, Germanyย ยท Remote
Full-time
Woltโs search plays a key role in our customer shopping experience by enabling them to find their next order amongst Woltโs large assortment. The Search Relevance team owns the retrieval and ranking of restaurants, stores, dishes and items in the Woltโs search result pages across all the company surfaces and touchpoints.
As a Search Backend Engineer in Woltโs Search Relevance team you will:
Work at Woltโs scale: Wolt operates in 25 different markets with as many languages and millions of customers;
Be part of a cross-disciplinary team with Data Scientists, Software Engineers and Analysts to provide solutions to customer problems with a direct impact on the companyโs business and customer KPIs;
Contribute to product initiatives aimed at improving our ML solutions.
Monitor, maintain and troubleshoot our team in-house search engine built on top of Lucene;
๐This role can be based in one of our tech hubs in Berlin, Helsinki, or Stockholm, or you can work remotely anywhere in Finland, Sweden, Germany 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, Germany or Sweden.
Our humble expectations
5+ years Experience with building Search Engine systems, using Elasticsearch, Solr or Lucene.
Ability to design large-scale resilient distributed microservices on a cloud infrastructure (preferably Kubernetes and AWS).
Experience working with Python, Kotlin is a plus.
Advocating for agile processes, operational excellence, and coding best practices such as clean code, readability, and test-driven development.
Experience working with ML systems is a plus.
Next steps
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 youโll own a piece of the pie.
For any further questions about the position, you can turn to Product+ Talent Acquisition Partner - Fernanda Prado (fernanda.prado.e.silva@wolt.com).
