Senior Backend Engineer

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

About Wolt: Wolt is a technology company building the one app for food. Be it discovering or getting great meals – takeaway, home delivery or to the table – Wolt takes care of it for you. Pick a restaurant, build your order, choose delivery, takeaway or eat in and hit send. Magic ensues. We’re a Series A startup well backed by EQT Ventures (lead by Kees Koolen - served as CEO of Booking.com), Skype founder Niklas Zennström, Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen, and Nokia’s Chairman Risto Siilasmaa.


About the Consumer Team: 

The Consumer Team at Wolt creates beautiful and functional user experiences for the Wolt product. In this team you will work with topics like discovery, search, and machine learning to continue pushing the limits of what the Wolt product can do for our users.

ROLE FOCUS: 

Team Player: Work independelty and also closely with our Product team to partner on things like architecture design, product development, and our product roadmap

Business Oriented: Have a say in the things we build and how we build them, which in turn affects the Wolt experience and product

Take Ownership: Own the code that you write. We are proud of our code and we believe in clean code principles and unit tests test coverage. 

Know-it-all: You're familiar with our stack (we use mostly PostgreSQL, Python, Scala, MongoDB, AWS), but also willingly to learn new programming languages and ways of building things.

Get shit done: Hustle, hustle, hustle. 

YOUR BACKGROUND:

You're knowledgable about Ruby or Python, any of the JVM languages, RDBMS, NoSQL, DBS, closure, and functional programming

You know how to do unit tests 

You already have experience designing and building architecture under your belt and are looking for your next challenge 

You understand that what we build must scale, and have experience in working with systems that require scalability

You have a good understanding how modern services work

You're ready to roll up your sleeves and help us take the Wolt product to new heights

Fluent in English

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.

Healthcare insurance
Healthcare insurance

Break a leg! Seriously, we got you covered in our company healthcare plan.

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Working at
Wolt (FI)

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to your home or office. Wolt is not just a delivery app – we’re a technology company building a commerce platform to seamlessly connect our millions of customers with thousands of merchant and courier partners, in real-time across 23 countries and 250+ cities. Our apps (iOS and Android) have the industry’s highest ratings, largely thanks to our customer-first-mindset, which shows in how we build products and run operations. In June 2022 we officially joined forces with DoorDash. Combined, we have a presence in 27 countries, 23 of which operate with the Wolt brand and app. Wolt and DoorDash continue largely independently, with Wolt’s name, brand, product, technology and team.

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