(Senior) Frontend Engineer, Instant Messaging Platform

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>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.</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 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.</p><p><strong>Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity &amp; 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-SW</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>Are you ready to take part in defining a direction for a completely new initiative and face the opportunity to build a new real-time solution for 20M+ users?<br/> If you said “Yes, yes and definitely yes”, then come and join our new team on a mission to build a completely new instant messaging platform.</p><p>The quality of communication between our team and our customers and partners is essential as it determines how fast and accurately we can respond to inquiries and solve emerging problems. At Wolt, we currently serve over 20M+ monthly users and they love to chat with us, a lot 😊</p><p>Challenges include real-time messaging, ensuring that messages are reliably stored and delivered, and designing and building a conversations inbox with prioritization, attachment, and push notification systems. And that’s just to start with. Be ready to craft tooling that matches the level of quality and love that we dedicate to creating our external solutions! </p><p>We’re obsessed with high-ownership teams at Wolt, which means you’ll get to work in a culture of freedom and accountability. Our teams are in charge of their own roadmaps, how they build services and products, and how they solve challenges from new features to the core scalability of their solutions.</p><p>📍You can be based in our tech hubs in Helsinki or Stockholm, or work entirely remotely elsewhere in Finland, Sweden, or Estonia now and in the future! 🌍  Read more about our new remote set-up <a href="https://careers.wolt.com/en/blog/tech/product-hybrid-work">here</a>. If you live outside of these countries - not to worry! We provide relocation support to help you make your way to Finland or Sweden.</p><h3>Qualifications</h3><p>To thrive in this team, you'll need a strong foundation working on frontend solutions using React and Typescript. It's great if you consider yourself flexible, adept at working with different languages and technologies depending on the problem we face. However, for this role, having robust React + Typescript skills would be highly beneficial.</p><p>You are making the right choice to apply if you are able to drive projects by yourself, value taking ownership beyond the obvious, are strongly motivated to learn new things and have worked closely with product teams and other senior team members before.</p><p>We work closely with our teammates and having a good connection with team members is essential. We understand that everyone has their own unique way of communicating with others but we expect you to be yourself, express your opinions, and work together with the rest of the team.</p><