Engineering Team Lead, Platform

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.

About the Team

The Storage Access Abstractions team bridges the gap between Product Engineerings evolving needs and infrastructure capabilities by building database-agnostic developer-friendly APIsthat simplify access to online data at scale. Our mission is to enable product engineers to focus on solving business problems by providing aseamless and intuitive stateful data access layer without needing to manage the complexity of robust secure and high-performance storage primitives.

Were currently building the next generation online data storage abstraction layers on top of scalable distributed databases (including Cassandra) to serve engineers across Doordash Wolt globally. The team is at a pivotal phase transitioning from architectural design and deep development to taking the first steps towards production readiness. We are just getting started and there is still a lot to build and define both in shaping the team and the product!

About the Role

Were now hiring an Engineering Manager to lead building next-generation storage access abstraction layers. You will lead a team of highly skilled engineers in designing building and optimizing the new platform and ensuring smooth developer onboarding constant improvement and optimization. Doordash and Wolt operate at significant scale and are growing rapidly: performance availability and scalability are central to the teams work.

Your team will be responsible for building and maintaining an abstraction layer in front of distributed storage systems ensuring high availability performance and reliability. You will help shape the future of storage abstraction driving innovation in database efficiency fault tolerance and operational simplicity allowing engineers across DoorDash and Wolt to focus on delivering great product experiences. You will collaborate with infrastructure and product engineers across global teams including those in the US and EU timezones to ensure the platform meets their evolving storage and scalability needs.

You will report to the Director of the Core Group in Wolts Product Organization collaborating closely with our peers at Doordash.

Youre excited about this opportunity because you will

• Lead and mentor a team of senior engineers focused on scaling and optimizing distributed databases and abstractions.

• Drive architectural decisions for high-performance fault-tolerant data abstractions built on top of NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra).

• Collaborate cross-functionally with platform infrastructure and application teams to ensure seamless data access consistency and reliability.

• Facilitate stakeholder management and build a relationship with our customers internally spanning across timezones.

• Bring expertise in building and operating high scale systems and open source softwares with a focus on reliability scalability efficiency and ease of use

• Build sustain and grow a diverse team to address the growing needs of the organization

Were excited about you because

• You have 5 years of experience in backend/infrastructure engineering with 2 years leading engineering teams.

• You have hands-on experience with one or more large-scale databases ( Cassandra DynamoDB or similar).

• You have a strong track record of hiring onboarding and mentoring Senior Engineers.

• You excel in technical leadership providing guidance in architecture decisions performance improvements and team growth.

• You are execution-driven with a proven ability to deliver large-scale distributed storage solutions in fast-moving environments.

• You treat infrastructure as a product obsess over the developer experience ensure the platform is intuitive easy to adopt and delivers measurable value to internal customers.

• You champion a culture of customer obsession and feedback-driven development ensuring the team deeply understands and responds to the needs of engineers relying on the platform.

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.