Staff Engineer, Platform Reliability

Job title:

Staff Engineer, Platform Reliability

Company

Wolt

Job description

Company DescriptionWolt 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 WoltAt 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 & InclusionWe 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.#LI-SK1Job DescriptionWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Engineer with a focus on platform reliability to join our dynamic Core engineering team.The successful candidate will lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable platform solutions that drive our e-commerce business forward.As a Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for setting technical direction, mentoring other engineers, and ensuring our platform architecture supports rapid growth and reliability.This open role can be based in all of our tech hubs in Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallinn or Berlin. You can choose whether you want to work from home, from the office or hybrid.QualificationsPlatform Development: Lead the design and development of a robust, scalable platform architecture that supports our business goals and growth.
Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction and leadership to multiple teams to ensure best practices in software development, deployment, and maintenance.
Innovation: Drive the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to improve platform performance, scalability, reliability and security.
Mentor: Mentor and guide engineers at various levels, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Collaborate: Work closely with Core´s engineers and other engineering teams to align platform initiatives with business needs and goals.
Reliability&Observability: Ensure the reliability of our platform through the rigorous adoption of high-quality observability dashboards and SLOs across the engineering organization. Design, develop, and maintain SRE tooling to automate and streamline incident management processes. Develop tooling to measure the SRE maturity of applications and services, integrating with existing platforms like Wolt’s Developer Platform. Tools and Dashboards Consolidation.
Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of platform architecture, design decisions, and best practices to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding.
Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks and reliability issues to ensure the platform operates efficiently at scale.
Security: Implement and enforce security best practices to protect data and maintain the integrity of our platform in alignment with our Security Engineers.
Data-driven decision-making: Using facts, metrics, and data to guide strategic decisions that align with your goals, objectives, and initiatives.
Hands-on: Jump on implementation topics wherever seniority is needed. (Go/Python)Additional InformationThe 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.

Expected salary

Location

Helsinki

Job date

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 23:50:07 GMT

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