Senior Frontend Engineer, Wolt Labs

Company Description

Wolt 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, 27 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

Working in Product Development at Wolt

At 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 & Inclusion

We 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-SW

Job Description

Are you an experienced software engineer ready to jump into an exciting role building something new on Wolt’s consumer and payment domains? Do you strive for releasing high-quality code to production? If yes, we might just have the spot for you as we are looking for a Frontend Software Developer to join one of our Payments teams in building world-class payment infrastructure on our web app https://wolt.com/.

The Payments group owns the end-to-end payment UX, from users choosing a payment on checkout to users switching to external apps for authentications. It’s a cross-functional team of frontend and backend engineers building product features end-to-end both within the team and in collaboration with other product and engineering teams (e.g. Consumer Web team).  

You would be joining a new team with a real opportunity to contribute to the team's roadmap, tech choices, ways of working, and, naturally, be able to build all kinds of cool payments-related, user-facing features that will directly impact Wolt users’ customer experience. Since the team is in its early stages, you would have a real impact developing the Web App’s future, which is quite exciting really! Technical work you’ll drill down into can relate to anything from implementing purchase order designs for checkout to integrating SDKs of new payment methods across our 30 countries.

The Payments group implements payment and fraud solutions on Wolt’s checkout, as well as ensures that other quickly growing teams at Wolt can readily use payments based on their needs (i.e. multi-payment, bill-splitting, tipping, top ups, recurring payments, two-factor authentication on demand, etc). As Wolt operates internationally in 30 countries and over 200 cities these teams are in a vital spot for enabling a smooth checkout experience for our 15 million registered customers and ensuring stable, safe and error-proof money flows! 

You can be based in our tech hubs Stockholm, Tallinn or Helsinki  🌍

What we value

As the business is 24/7 so must our services be. We have lots of exciting and challenging engineering topics for seasoned engineers: state management, component architecture, code reusability, api designs and last but not least, test automation.

Ownership: We handle the whole development process (business logic, testing, database & data streaming, CI/CD, analytics, cloud) ourselves in an autonomous manner. Don’t worry, we’re not alone: We have support from central teams when we need help.

Technology: We use modern tools and technologies. Current stack in use is React + Typescript, React Testing Library, GitHub Actions, Playwright, Storybook and TanStack React Query.

Autonomy: We make the decisions as a team and group of teams! We are free to choose the technology stack and tools and make architectural decisions together. No top-down decisions!

Creativity: We’re building lots of new stuff with minimal technical debt so you can focus on developing new features.

Diversity: We have different people with different backgrounds. Cultivating diversity and maintaining different opinions is the key to our success.

Our humble expectations

You might be the one we are looking for if you have several years of experience building apps using React & Typescript and delivering clean, reliable and maintainable code

We value a user centric mindset and strong sense of ownership where you take initiative and drive projects

On top of that, we value an attitude of constant improvements and also the ability to create things from scratch. 

Qualifications

We are on the lookout for someone who is passionate about shipping high-quality software that solves customer and business problems. Technically, our ideal candidate knows their way around building top-notch frontend applications using React & TypeScript, while being highly passionate about design and enhancing user experience. If you're also all about crafting sleek, modern code that's as testable as it is maintainable, then you're our kind of person. 💫

You are making the right choice to apply if you value taking ownership beyond the obvious, are strongly motivated to learn new things, don’t shy away from making decisions, and are willing to collaborate with different teams across the organization. Throughout your career, you have worked with diverse teams. You’ve shipped beautiful greenfield projects from scratch, maintained horribly out-of-date old legacy projects, and everything in between. You understand the lifecycle of software products and have a pragmatic approach to finding the balance between crafting beautiful and scalable solutions while delivering incremental customer value along the way. 🛠️

We work closely with our teammates and having a good connection with team members is essential. We understand that everyone has their own unique way of communicating with others. We expect you to be yourself, express your opinions, and work together with the rest of the team. 👥 

Additional Information

The 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.