We build Wolt together.
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 27 countries, 500+ cities and we’re growing fast.
We build at scale, are laser-focused on our customers and do things with heart. Dive with us into the complex problems of building the delivery of everything. Our vision is the whole city delivered within minutes, and we’re only getting started.
Inside engineering at Wolt
End-to-end ownership: you build it, run it and fix it
Our engineers own the full life-cycle of the products they build — from release to maintenance. This means ownership and accountability from every engineer in our team.
As we’re running a real-time platform with real world implications that require constant monitoring, we must move smart and fast. We deploy 50-100 times a day. It leads us to develop small, incremental changes at a time and ship value to our customers fast. Our engineers always decide when they deploy so there aren’t hoops of approvals to jump through.
Teams decide the tech they use
We work with a wide variety of technologies. In fact, teams own their technology choices. We value building scalable and robust solutions.
The most common technologies include: Python, Kotlin, Scala, React, Typescript, and Swift, though we have a bit of Rust, Golang, Flutter and C++ hidden in our services.
We run everything on AWS, with Kubernetes and a long list of infrastructure automation and various databases (like Mongo and Postgres) to boot. We rely on Kafka to power our data streaming needs.
We’re built upon continuous learning
We also stay curious and share learnings. Here are some of the ways we learn from each other and work together:
Product Hour: Biweekly Friday knowledge-sharing sessions where we get together to have food and drinks and watch presentations from teams on a variety of topics
Product Week: A week full of awesome sessions, workshops and team-building sessions to help us come closer as a cross-functional Product Development team
Wolt Hackathons: In Hackathons, we get together in small cross-functional groups to join forces – building great things together, having fun and innovating
Competence leads: For our bigger technologies we have competence leads who spend a part of their time codifying best practices, mentoring and reviewing work, and building tech communities inside Wolt
Tech talks: Internal and external tech talks are our way to share technical knowledge and stories, while sharing learnings and tips on solving different challenges
It’s a journey full of growth
Personal growth is important to us. We want everyone to feel like they’re learning, growing and becoming better in whatever they want to focus on. We believe in giving people the freedom to pursue their interests for the betterment of us all at Wolt.
To help with this we have regular one-to-ones with team leads and give space for adventuring outside of our comfort zones. We encourage everyone to delve outside of their competence — participating in other team’s projects is encouraged whenever possible, and also many of our engineers have moved teams while at Wolt.
We’re an open community, and we embrace questioning and opinions. Share yours, discuss, learn and grow.
How we work
We delight our customers
We’re humbled and proud to say our apps have the industry’s highest ratings the App Store (4.8*) and Google Play (4.6*).
*global average as of March 2023
We build at scale
We run hundreds of backend services and process over 50,000 messages per second through our Kafka.
We craft excellence
We build clean, efficient code at scale. In 2021 we made 28,026,035 additions and -20,415,144 deletions in our codebase.
We build beautiful products, the Wolt way
We build at scale, but stay small at heart. And together, we're building the delivery of (almost) everything.
We’re grouped around customer problems
We build loveable, performant and relevant user experiences.
We build and maintain the core technical backbone of Wolt to ensure scale and keep on running without hiccups.
We build top-notch tooling for our courier partners.
We build solutions for inbound and outbound money flows.
We provide merchants with tools and APIs to drive their Wolt operations.
We expand Wolt to new user groups and use cases. We build consumer-grade user experiences for corporate environments.
We build top-notch tooling for Wolt’s support heroes.
Building world-class tooling to manage retail operations
Hear it from the team
"To be successful as an engineer, I’ve always needed two things: to pay attention to details and to be a nerd. I don’t want to sound vanilla, but you need to love what you’re doing."
— Ada, Software Engineer
“Although our team is distributed in five different cities in four countries, I feel like I am still able to socialize with my team in the same way as if we were in the same office.”
-Mila, Backend engineer
"At Wolt our services are resilient and fault-tolerant because there's so much care being put into building them from scratch."
— Rashmi, Software Engineer
“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, Android Developer and Android Competence Lead
"I never really felt like I’d be ‘just an intern’ in any way. From the beginning I was involved in our team’s projects and I worked closely with my team."
— HyeSoo, Front-end Developer
"Although there are always individual interesting topics that come up, the most interesting task, to me, is the never-ending process of writing code intended for long-term maintainability."
— Kristian, Competence Lead
“I was a Typescript and React guy who joined Wolt because of the people. Now I’m scaling our whole engineering team.”
— Niilo, VP of Engineering
“Haskell is the only beautiful thing in the world”
— Tatiana, DevOps Engineer
“Human relationships are as important as coding skills”
— Petru, Team Lead
"I came to Wolt with very little experience in the industry or the technologies that are used here, so I am running into interesting challenges all the time. It’s great, and I feel like I’m never running out of ways to challenge myself and learn new things."
— Puro, Software Engineer
"The most difficult situations require me to be Sherlock Holmes – when the routing suddenly goes haywire"
— Johann, Logistics Engineer
We get together, every year
Take a peek at Product Week; an annual event where all our colleagues from Engineering, Design, Product Management, Security, and Analytics and Data teams gather together in our HQ to collaborate, mingle and have fun.
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