Senior Staff Engineer, Fintech
Senior Staff Engineer, Fintech
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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 Senior Staff Engineer to join our Fintech group and help shape the future of our Fintech products and platforms. This is a high-impact role that goes beyond a single project: youll provide clarity alignment and technical leadership across multiple initiatives ensuring our financial and compliance platforms scale reliably as Wolt continues to expand globally offering a broader set of financial products to Wolt customers and partners.
This position will involve close collaboration with senior engineering and product leaders compliance specialists and business stakeholders. The role is about connecting the dots across teams and organisations guiding technical direction and making sure decisions and platforms remain consistent as we grow.
While the primary focus will be on Fintech/Payments the impact will extend across the company influencing the Merchant Courier and Consumer domains as well as compliance and accounting platforms.
For this role you can be based in our tech hub cities (Helsinki Berlin Stockholm Tallinn) or work remotely anywhere in Finland Germany Sweden or Estonia - with occasional travel to connect with colleagues.
What youll be doing
- Drive the technical vision and architecture for Wolts global Fintech platforms ensuring they are scalable reliable and compliant.
- Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and projects bringing architectural consistency to complex large-scale platforms.
- Partner with engineering and product leaders as well as non-technical stakeholders to align priorities and manage trade-offs.
- Contribute to end-user-facing financial and compliance platforms ensuring consistency accuracy and robustness at scale.
- Lead large cross-team projects guiding them from concept to rollout across multiple countries and time zones.
- Promote best engineering practices mentor engineers across teams and set the long-term technical direction.
- Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical colleagues ensuring clarity and alignment across functions.
- Contribute to the technical roadmaps of Fintech platforms and products by facilitating and aligning with other senior engineers.
Our humble expectations
Were looking for someone with a mix of deep technical expertise system-level thinking and excellent communication skills.
Technical Expertise
- Proven track record designing and scaling large distributed systems.
- Experience delivering production-grade systems with compliance or financial requirements (fintech background is a plus but not a must-have).
- Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and languages; while many of our services are written in Kotlin and Go we are looking for a language-agnostic. (Prior experience in Go is a big plus).
- Ability to dive in quickly into new domains and projects.
- Strong understanding of system architecture scalability and reliability.
- Familiarity with modern cloud-native tools and data systems (e.g. Kubernetes Kafka MongoDB).
Communication & Influence
- Strong communicator with the ability to influence align and build consensus across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in a global environment across multiple time zones
- Skilled at translating complex technical decisions into clear direction for technical and non-technical audiences.
What we offer
At Wolt this role provides a rare opportunity to make a wide-reaching impact on systems that are critical to our global business. As a Senior Staff Engineer you will help build financial and compliance platforms that support millions of merchants couriers and consumers across continents. The scope of work spans global initiatives with colleagues across continents and involves solving technical and organizational challenges at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and Fintech.
Alongside the technical challenge this role offers the chance to work closely with talented engineers and leaders shaping Wolts engineering culture while also mentoring and influencing others.
Next steps
The position will be filled as soon as we find the right candidate so apply as soon as possible! The compensation consists of a monthly salary combined with DoorDash RSUs.
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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
