(Senior) Kotlin or Python Engineer, Promotions

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 31 countries today, 27 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

Wolt is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Promotions team. The Promotions team is all about making Wolt affordable for our users. The team does this both by making changes to our consumer-facing applications (iOS, Android and Web) and by building tools for our local and central marketing teams. Any type of incentive that happens inside the Wolt platform, whether it’s free deliveries, credits, discounts etc. is owned by the team, both the tooling and the consumer-facing part. Development within the team moves with a fast pace, is very iterative, involves a lot of testing out new things and finding new ways to engage our customers. 

The Promotions team currently consists of a team lead, a product lead, a data-analyst, mobile, backend and frontend engineers, and a designer. You’ll be getting your hands on systems done by plenty of other Wolt teams and collaborate and learn from them. You’ll contribute both to one of the oldest backend monoliths in the company, written in Python, as well as newer micro-services written in Python and Kotlin and will help move code to the latter. The team is spread out geographically and we work in a remote-first, asynchronous manner. ‍

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a professional capability in building backend services using Python or Kotlin, ideally both, and delivering modern, testable, and maintainable code. We can tailor the role based on your experience to favor one of the languages, but you will need to learn both. ️

The team has three other backend developers, so there is an opportunity to get mentorship and guidance from more experienced peers. We especially value a track record of learning new things quickly - it’s not just about where you are now but about where you will be in six months or a year. 

Aside from technology, we expect you to be a product-oriented problem solver, a good communicator, willing to collaborate with people in and outside of your own team. You are willing to work with stakeholders to flesh out the final requirements and if necessary, find a compromise between tech and product and keen to bring up issues in a constructive manner to the team and to Wolt at large. Each and every one of our product team members has a say in where we are going and what solutions we implement.

Wanna get to know your future team lead Olli and why he chose Wolt? Check out  this blog post .

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 - Sandra ().