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 global logistics 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 November 2021 Wolt and DoorDash announced we’re joining forces, and the transaction is expected to close in H1 2022.

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 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 37 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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The Consumer Search team at Wolt is looking for a senior software engineer to help build the next version of our search platform. The team is all about experimenting, developing, and fine-tuning our multi-faceted search features, including filtering and sorting, relevancy scoring, as well as taking care of the end-to-end search architecture to create the best possible search experience for our customers. The team consists of a Team Lead, Product Lead, backend and client engineers, and data functions, waiting for you to join and bring your expertise to the table.

Together with the experienced and  growing team, you’d have full ownership of search features, used already by 10+ million customers. This role is focused on hands-on development of high-quality code. In addition, you’d share the best practices, ensure the building of scalable solutions, mentor other developers, and facilitate their expertise around the search domain. With Wolt’s rapid expansion to the Retail landscape comes the ever increasing amount of data, search is becoming one of the most central pieces in enabling users to discover our vast offering, from restaurants venues to grocery stores and pharmacies, cutting across dietary preferences, product categories, etc. The challenges are not only how to effectively deliver seamless UI and UX features but also about building reliable indexing pipelines, developing self-learning ranking pipelines, improving scalability and platform reliability with ever growing data from multiple sources. 

The Senior Software Engineer for Consumer Search role has the possibility to grow into Staff Engineer, with opportunities to tackle even bigger challenges that have a higher impact.

This role can be based in one of our tech hubs in Helsinki or Berlin, or you can work remotely anywhere in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Estonia. Read more about our remote setup here.

The ideal candidate would have an extensive background in designing and building top-class software, especially similar search features at scale. A strong knowledge of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch or similar tools is a big plus. Preferably, you’d have previous experience working within the search domain at a large consumer organization. History as a coding architect is genuinely relevant as well. The team writes mainly Python (Flask, FastAPI) but we assume you can handle it with up-to-date skills from any other modern language and framework.

Naturally, excellent communications skills, capability to drive by technical expertise and get things done are crucial to the success of the role.

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.

If you want to check up on your application or have any further questions about the position you can turn to Product Talent Acquisition Partner, Severi Kausola, at [email protected].