Frontend Engineer, Web Tooling
Job Summary
About Wolt
At Wolt we create technology that brings joy simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the 2014 we started with delivery of restaurant food. Now were building the delivery of (almost) everything and youll find us in over 500 cities in 30 countries around the 2022 we joined forces with DoorDash and together we keep on dreaming big and expanding across the globe.
Working at Wolt isnt always easy but its definitely exciting. Here youll learn more build more and ship more than in most other companies. Youll be challenged a lot but also have a lot of fun on the way. So if youre a self-starter with drive and entrepreneurial spirit this could be the ride of your life.
Wolt is looking for a Frontend Engineer to join our Web Tooling team. The team sits within the DoorDash Developer Platform group and is responsible for the foundation that hundreds of engineers across Wolt DoorDash and Deliveroo rely on to build internal operations tools. Our platform hosts 200 micro-frontends (MFEs) used to operate every part of the business.
About the team
Our team is focused on building a scalable reliable and high-quality internal tooling platform that supports Wolt DoorDash and Deliveroos operations and business.
The team plays an important role in improving how engineers build test and ship software across the organization with a strong emphasis on reusable libraries micro-frontend architecture and harness engineering for AI coding agents that enable teams to move faster while maintaining high quality.
Right now we are focused on unifying our frontend platforms evolving shared components and library development improving developer productivity and enabling teams to deliver more independently through better architecture and tooling.
Its an exciting time to join because the team has strong ownership and a broad technical impact.
About the role
Were looking for a Frontend Engineer who can take ownership of complex technical initiatives across both frontend and sometimes backend this role youll work primarily with TypeScript React CI/CD pipelines and MFE architecture to build scalable maintainable solutions that support multiple product teams and business areas.
Success in this role means becoming a trusted technical owner who consistently delivers reliable solutions and helps the team execute more effectively. Six months into the role wed expect you to be independently leading technical initiatives and contributing meaningfully to architecture and delivery planning.
This role offers the opportunity to solve challenging engineering problems with visible impact across the business. Its especially exciting for someone who enjoys combining product engineering with platform thinking improving developer workflows and building systems that scale across teams and domains.
What youll be doing
- Owning the Foundation: the runtime build deployment and developer experience that 200 MFEs and hundreds of engineers depend on every day.
- Evolving Our Micro-Frontend Architecture: improve composition isolation and shared dependency strategies so feature teams can move fast.
- Product and Planning: Independently drive projects from idea to production: breaking down ambiguous problems into clear technical plans estimating delivery identifying risks early and delivering high-quality solutions in a timely manner.
- Supporting Engineering Excellence: champion best practices raise the bar for code quality and turn lessons learned into platform improvements.
- AI Fluency: Use AI coding tools to increase engineering productivity and quality while applying strong judgment and review.
- Long-Term Thinking: balance short-term feature unblockers with the long-term health security and maintainability of the platform.
This role can be based in one of our tech hubs in Helsinki or Berlin. Read more about our hybrid setup here.
Feel free to check out the Wolt Tech Blog for more insight into our culture and technology.
Our humble expectations
Must haves
- Proven expertise in building production frontend applications using TypeScript and React.
- Solid backend knowledge comfortable owning and operating services that support frontend infrastructure.
- Strong knowledge of frontend build tools bundlers and module systems and the ability to evolve them as the platform grows.
- Track record of diagnosing and resolving complex performance reliability or DX issues in large frontend codebases.
- Experience driving technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative platform-mindset approach to working with feature teams.
- Strong documentation skills including experience writing RFCs or ADRs.
Nice to haves
- Experience with micro-frontends architecture.
- Frontend platform engineering experience.
- Experience building shared component libraries used by many product teams.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines deployment processes and cloud infrastructure for frontend workloads.
- Experience or interest in observability and reliability (SRE).
Whats in it for you
- Impact: Build and shape the platform that thousands of people depend on.
- Scale: Work on real platform problems behind 200 MFEs with hundreds of monthly contributors.
- Collaboration: Partner with talented engineers designers and operators across companies to make their daily work faster and better.
- Growth: Take on deep technical challenges across frontend architecture AI harness engineering DX performance and improving engineering efficiency.
- Culture: Be part of a diverse open-minded team that values creativity autonomy and continuous learning.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Were committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company industry and cities. Thats why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds experiences and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools resources and opportunity to excel.
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About Company
Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company with a mission to bring joy, simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world. Wolt develops a local commerce platform that connects people looking to order food, groceries, and other goods with people interested in selling and deli ... View more