Android Engineer, Design Systems

Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants) and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 29 countries today, 25 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

Working in Product Development at Wolt

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done. You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people. 

The behind the scenes of Wolt is run by an awesome bunch of over 700+ planners, builders, designers and data crunchers. We call ourselves Product+, as we’re the very core of Wolt’s products, tools and platforms. To build our products, we work in over 60 cross-functional, independent and autonomous teams. Teams are made up of a mix of talented individuals: engineers, designers, data scientists, analysts, and product leads. Each team takes ownership for solving customer problems in the best possible way.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.

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Job Description

Are you an Android Engineer with a strong passion for UI and creating beautiful and scalable user experiences? If this resonates with you, then we would love for you to be the first Android Engineer on our Design System team. Working as an engineer on the Design System team you will be building from the ground up and maintaining a library of design tokens and UI components that will act as the shared design language for both engineers and designers. Furthermore, as part of the team you will empower other engineers and designers to contribute to the design system, and act as the Android UI expert at Wolt. You will drive UI best practices across Wolt and have a wide influence over feature teams. As part of offering a Design Systems library for Android, your goal will be to increase design and development velocity, quality, and consistency for all of Wolt’s products, including the consumer, courier, and merchant applications. As an Android Engineer you’ll be developing using both Jetpack Componse and traditional Android Views. You’ll be creating and maintaining a brand new shared UI library to be consumed by other Android Engineers which needs to be easily maintainable, provide reusable and scalable APIs and be well documented and tested.

Currently the team consists of 4 Web Engineers, 1 iOS Engineer, and 2 Design System Designers.

Qualifications

We are looking for a person with experience in building high quality UI components and with an understanding on how to build a shared library that can be easily extended, and be consumed by other developers.

As the creator of the shared UI library for Android, we expect you to deliver high quality and well documented components with clean APIs. In order to succeed in the role, you’ll need several years of experience in building Android applications using modern technologies and brand new Android platform features. Our codebase is in Kotlin so you should feel at home with the language, you should also be familiar with Jetpack Compose and some of the other latest features of the Android platform.

While we don’t expect you to be a designer, we want you to have a good eye for design. You should be able to spot problematic designs, understand common design patterns, and advocate for user experiences that are specific to the Android platform. Furthermore, we’d expect you to know and follow accessibility guidelines for Android and be able to spot accessibility issues in designs.

We need you to be a good communicator and share your knowledge with both engineers and designers across the organization. As a builder of shared infrastructure, you will be expected to proactively communicate changes and also identify potential new challenges. Collaboration with both engineers and designers is an essential part of your role.

Additional Information

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 you’ll own a piece of the pie.

For any further questions about the position, you can turn to Product+ Talent Acquisition Partner - Fernanda Prado e Silva ().