Senior Backend Engineer - Global Marts
Wolt - English · Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden
Posted 16 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 16 days Wolt - English's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Wolt - English's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Wolt - English
- low 0 stale, 33 reposted of 248 open
- Hiring momentum
- 410 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Wolt, you'll design, build, and operate backend systems that support various operational aspects such as inventory, purchasing, and fulfillment. You'll take end-to-end ownership of production systems, work on data-heavy solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence technical direction and solve complex problems. The role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and the use of modern technologies including Go and Kotlin.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Strong experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems
- Professional experience with Go, Kotlin, or another modern backend language
- Experience owning services end-to-end, including design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and production operations
- Strong knowledge of backend and distributed systems fundamentals, including APIs, databases, asynchronous processing, failure handling, testing, and observability
- Comfortable working with data-heavy systems and technologies such as Kafka, Snowflake, or similar streaming and data infrastructure
- Ability to navigate ambiguous problems, break them into actionable steps, and deliver incrementally
Nice to have
- Experience in forecasting, optimization, scheduling, recommendation, or decisioning systems
- Experience in grocery, retail, logistics, supply chain, or warehouse technology
- Experience with ERP, vendor management, procurement, or workforce management integrations
- Experience replacing third-party or legacy platforms with internally built systems
- Experience with high-throughput event-driven or streaming architectures
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role may not support fully remote work or relocation
- The tech stack includes both modern and potentially legacy technologies
- The position involves significant ownership and influence over technical direction, which may come with high expectations
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Listed by Wolt - English on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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