Python Backend Engineer, Purchase Platform

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

Wolt is looking for a Python Backend Engineer to join the Purchase Platform team. The team is responsible for the complete purchase lifecycle in the core of Wolt’s consumer backend. The Purchase Platform team is small yet highly proficient, and we're eager to add more talent to our dynamic group of skilled engineers.

Purchase Platform has full ownership of purchases, a core concept in Wolt's backend. As part of the team, you will get right into the guts of Wolt’s systems and help make sure we are able to continue scaling the business and have a solid foundation that other teams can build upon. The team is responsible for developing back-end components with a balanced touch of writing code, DevOps, and software reliability engineering (SRE), all while maintaining and continuously improving the scalability and robustness of our systems. Examples of tasks you will work on include extracting parts of a monolith into a new service, building internal APIs for other teams, and optimizing old flows inside the backend to be more efficient and scalable.

We have a strong Python community at Wolt and modern Python (FastAPI, Flask) is our bread and butter. We strive to always use the latest Python version in our services which allows us to benefit from the latest language features. Feel free to check out our Python tech talks here. If you are a Pythonista and would like to be surrounded by like-minded people, we have a lot to offer.  

New team members are welcome to either of our tech hubs located in Helsinki or Stockholm or you can work entirely remotely anywhere in Finland, Sweden, 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 asynchronous Python and delivering modern, testable and maintainable code. 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 solver, a good communicator, willing to collaborate with people in- and outside of your own team, and keen to bring up issues in a constructive manner to the team and to Wolt at large. We work with high ownership in small teams where each team member works around the whole software development life cycle. Each and every one of our product team members has a say in where we are going and what solutions we implement.

Additional Information

The position will be filled as soon as we find the right person, so make sure to apply as soon as you realize you really, really want to join us!

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.

For any further questions about the position, you can turn to Product+ Talent Acquisition Partner - Severi Kausola (severi.kausola(at)wolt.com).