Backend Engineer (Python/Go) - Consumer Platform Team

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day in this role, you'll:
• Build and operate high-throughput backend services in Python and Go
• Work across the full development lifecycle, from system design to deployment and monitoring
• Improve the scalability and reliability of Wolt's core platform
• Design and develop shared services, internal tooling, and platform-level capabilities used across teams
• Drive cross-team initiatives that raise engineering standards and system resilience
• Collaborate with product teams and other engineering groups to support critical consumer-facing flows
• Why this role
• Work on the backbone of Wolt: Consumer Platform sits at the core of Wolt's engineering organization. The systems you build power everything from purchase flows to platform-wide reliability, with direct impact on millions of users.
• High-impact, cross-team work: This team is known for driving initiatives that span across Wolt. Recent work includes scaling the purchase core to support split payments, building API gateway capabilities for critical flows, and improving reliability standards across the platform.
• A small team with high leverage: You'll work in a focused, experienced team where engineers take ownership, move quickly, and influence both technical direction and platform strategy.
• AI-First Engineering in Consumer Platform
• We're building platform teams at the forefront of agentic software development. This goes beyond code generation. We're interested in engineers who:
• Design workflows where AI agents assist or own parts of the development loop
• Think critically about what should be automated versus human-reviewed
• Build tooling and abstractions that make AI-assisted backend development safer and more effective
• Stay curious about new models, tools, and approaches, and form strong opinions on what actually works
• If you find yourself asking "how should this system be built with AI in mind?" you'll fit right in!
• Our Tech Stack
• Python, Go, MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, CI/CD pipelines

Requirements

• Strong backend fundamentals: Experience building production-grade backend services using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• AI-first development mindset: You use AI tools in your daily workflow and think critically about how they improve how you build, debug, and design systems.
• Experience at scale: You've worked on high-traffic production systems and understand the challenges of reliability, performance, and scalability.
• System design thinking: You have solid fundamentals in designing distributed systems and care about efficiency, robustness, and maintainability.
• End-to-end ownership mindset: You take responsibility beyond implementation, from shaping solutions to ensuring systems are stable, observable, and production-ready.
• Ability to work independently and drive projects: You're comfortable owning work end-to-end, navigating ambiguity, and moving initiatives forward with minimal guidance.
• Collaboration and communication: You work effectively across teams and communicate clearly in multi-team engineering environments.
• Reliability and operational awareness: Experience with observability, on-call practices, or reliability engineering is a plus.
• Platform and tooling exposure: Experience contributing to shared systems, internal tooling, or platform engineering initiatives is

Additional Information

About Wolt At Wolt, we create technology that brings joy, simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world. In 2014 we started with delivery of restaurant food. Now we're building the delivery of (almost) everything and you'll find us in over 500 cities in 30 countries around the world. In 2022 we joined forces with DoorDash and together we keep on dreaming big and expanding across the globe. Working at Wolt isn't always easy, but it's definitely exciting. Here you'll learn more, build more, and ship more than in most other companies. You'll be challenged a lot, but also have a lot of fun on the way. So, if you're a self-starter with drive and entrepreneurial spirit, this could be the ride of your life. Are you excited about building the systems that keep Wolt running for millions of customers every day? We're looking for a pragmatic, product-minded Backend Engineer with strong skills in Python or Go to join our Consumer Platform team - the group behind the core infrastructure and reliability that make Wolt fast, stable, and scalable. This is a role at the intersection of backend engineering, platform thinking, and reliability. You'll work on the systems that power critical purchase flows and the foundations that other teams build on, shaping how Wolt performs at scale.

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