Senior Backend Engineer (Golang), Support Group

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.

We are the Support Engineering Group the team responsible for delivering a seamless support experience to Wolts 50M users and 300K partners across the globe. Our mission is to provide fast effective help to every customer merchant and courier whenever they need it. We deliver this by building intelligent self-help flows powerful automations and a world-class in-house chat platform that makes getting support effortless.

To bring this vision to life we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Golang focused) to help build the next generation of the support experience. You will craft new intuitive chat interfaces self-help flows and automated tools that our customers merchants and couriers interact with directly. Your core challenge is to build a robust and elegant experience that feels tailor-made for each distinct user group while scaling seamlessly across dozens of countries and languages. If you are passionate about creating world-class systems that help millions we invite you to join our team in more about our hybrid setuphere.

Feel free to check out the Wolt Tech Blog for more insight into our culture and technology.

What youll be doing

• End-to-End Ownership: Design build and maintain scalable applications using Golang for backend microservices.
• System Architecture: Architect highly available distributed systems capable of handling high throughput
• Operational Excellence: improving system reliability latency and observability. You will participate in on-call rotations and drive root-cause analysis for production incidents.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers conduct rigorous code reviews and drive technical decision-making within the team.
• Product Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Managers and Designers to define the product the roadmap ensuring technical constraints and opportunities are understood early.

Our humble expectations*

You dont need to tick every box but if you see yourself in many of these points wed love to hear from you!

• Several years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of building and scaling complex systems.
• Experience working with Golang in production (at least 2 years) with the ability to mentor others and drive best practices across the team.
• Strong hands-on experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of designing and operating low-latency high-throughput distributed systems.
• Experience writing comprehensive unit integration and end-to-end tests.

What we offer

• Impact: You will reshape the support experience globally at Wolt as we build a new world-class support experience
• Autonomy: You will get great space to shape the architecture and technical vision of our Web experiences
• Collaboration: Work with talented engineers across Wolt to deliver real value to customers.
• Growth: Take on complex challenges and grow your skill set in a supportive forward-thinking environment.
• Culture: Be part of a diverse open-minded team that values creativity autonomy and continuous learning.

Next steps

We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply as soon as you feel excited about this opportunity. If you need any adjustments in our hiring process (for example related to accessibility caregiving or personal circumstances) let us know well be happy to support.

Are you curious about our hiring process Check out our careers page for more info.

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.