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Senior Kotlin Backend Engineers

Wolt
Finlandfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Jan 2025

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<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><h3>Job Description</h3><p>We are looking for talented Mid-level and Senior Backend Engineers with experience in Kotlin or any other JVM backend languages like Java and Scala, to join several different Engineering Groups. </p><p>Our Engineering organization at Wolt consists of 700+ Engineers working across 70+ product teams. Some of us work on the visible parts, making our services easy on the eye and some of us focus on the unseen magic happening behind the scenes. ✨</p><p>Our Engineers handle the whole development process (business logic, testing, database &amp; data streaming, CI/CD, analytics, cloud) in an autonomous manner. They build things that are accessible and made to scale. They keep our systems in the best shape by simplifying the unnecessary complexity.</p><p>We make the decisions as a team and group of teams for our ways of working and we take architectural decisions together. Everyone plays a role in our future.</p><p>Our Engineers choose the best technologies that work for Wolt, their teams and themselves. Making good choices means finding scalable, robust technology that works in everyone’s best interests. The freedom to experiment and adopt the best technology benefits everyone.</p><p>The main stack for these roles consists for example Kotlin (Ktor, Koin,  Spring, grpc…), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, GitHub Actions, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.</p><p>Needless to say, in such an environment there’s a lot of room for learning, teaching and growing together! <br/> <br/> Go ahead and check our Kotlin related Tech Talks below. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNHlHXeIOFw">The very fresh Scaling Kotlin Backend Development Podcast </a><br/> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLguFXrFRjbcOvDywb9vSNS9gL6M93i3Zz">Kotlin at Wolt</a><br/> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLguFXrFRjbcM7_Cxy5xPYTSlx2QGpqVr_">Kotlin Meetup</a></p><p><strong>FinTech Group</strong>: dedicated to shaping the future of financial services at Wolt. 🚀 Our Fintech teams play a critical role in enabling smooth and automated money flows for our customers, merchants, and courier partners as well as delivering financial products to them. To meet local requirements and provide the best financial solutions, our Fintech engineering teams are at the forefront of building integrations and automating financial processes for local country teams, supporting expansion in our existing markets and into new ones.</p><p>We currently have multiple roles in our Fintech Teams, and depending on your experience, we will make sure to find the right team for you if you love working with modern tech

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