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Senior Frontend Engineer, Courier Group
WoltFinlandRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Mar 2023
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<h3>Company Description</h3><p>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.</p><p><strong>Working in Product Development at Wolt</strong></p><p>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. </p><p>The behind the scenes of Wolt is run by an awesome bunch of over 400+ 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 40 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.</p><p><strong>Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>Join us today to build Wolt together!</p><p>#LI-LM_1</p><p>#LI-REMOTE</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>Are you interested in being part of building a service that is unique to the tastes of our over 20 million users? Would you like to be in the midst of it all, learning, growing, and expanding into new verticals together with us? Does working with Typescript and React and building stuff from scratch sound like something you’d like to do? If the answers to all 3 questions are “yes”, then great news since Wolt is looking for multiple Senior Frontend Engineers to join different engineering teams across our Courier Group!</p><p>First things first, let’s talk about what the Courier Group is and what our teams actually do there. 🤔 The Courier Group consists of seven amazing teams responsible for logistics and routing optimization, courier earnings, forecasting and providing top notch courier onboarding and delivery experiences. In terms of tech, modern Typescript and React are our bread and butter both in the Courier Group and across Wolt, we also use React Native in our Courier Partner application, while a big chunk of the backend is built using Python, Scala, as well as some Kotlin and even C++. We’re always improving our services and we aim for excellence, so if you would like to be surrounded by like minded people, we certainly have a lot to offer. 🚀</p><p>Depending on your interests and experience we’d love to welcome you to one of the following teams:</p><p><strong>Employment Team</strong> is a brand new team with a mission to provide effective tools for managing the practicalities of courier employment. In countries like Germany Wolt Couriers are in an employment relationship with Wolt, so being able to effectively manage things like absences and working hours has a big impact on the courier experience and efficiency of the delivery platform. This is a greenfield project, so you’ll be building a beautiful product from the ground up and integrating it with external systems, like HR and payroll as well as collaborating a lot with our Courier Onboarding team. The frontends are built in Typescript (React), while Scala and Kotlin will be the main backend programming languages of the team. Wolt has a strong community around Frontend, so there are good opportunities to collaborate and learn from others!</p><p><strong>Courier Earnings</strong> team, as the name suggests, works on finding the best ways to fairly price tasks for our Courier Partners so that they could easily maximize their earnings using our platform as well as making sure that we calculate what our Courier Partners earned as a part of delivery tasks they performed and the time they spent on the platform. At the moment we are working on rebuilding the Courier Partner payments from the grou
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