Backend Engineer, Venue Experience

Company Description

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

We are looking for a Python Backend Engineer to join our Venue Experience team. The team is mainly focused on building a world class retail experience for customers to discover, browse and shop products on Wolt. In order to achieve it we are looking for engineers who will be working on challenging engineering topics such as scaling our system to support thousands of products per venue; improving visibility of the assortment (introducing new ways of structuring it) along with developing modern backward compatible client-facing APIs for our web and mobile apps. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include the whole development process, including design, implementation, releasing and taking the whole ownership of our features.

Within the role, you will be working in an autonomous cross-functional team, which includes a product lead, backend engineers, mobile and web engineers, designers and data analysts. As part of our team you will also have a chance to work on complex tasks, which require collaboration with other teams building our Consumer & Merchant platforms.

We have a strong Python community at Wolt (check out our Wolt Tech Talks Youtube channel and our engineering blog) - modern Python (FastAPI, Flask, gRPC, usage of type hints) is our bread and butter. But we are not limited to Python; Wolt has a fantastic sharing and learning culture, and everyone is invited to learn, share best practices and choose the best technology for the job. 

New team members are welcome to either of our tech hubs located in Helsinki and Stockholm or you can work entirely remotely anywhere in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. You can read more about our remote setup here.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with a strong professional background in building backend services using Python (or similar technologies) and delivering modern, testable and maintainable code. If you happen to have experience also with Kotlin that would be great but not essential.

In addition, we expect high emotional intelligence, a willingness to take ownership beyond the obvious, motivation to learn new things and to teach others, and a willingness to collaborate with different teams across the organization.

Aside from technology, we expect you to be a product-oriented problem solv