# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: Wolt
**Location**: Helsinki
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Wolt, we create technology that brings joy, simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world.

## Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer at Wolt, you will build and maintain high-throughput backend services using Go. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend developers to ship features that support internal support agents across the globe. Your responsibilities will include designing scalable, resilient, and easy-to-maintain systems, leading and contributing to architectural discussions and technical decision-making, and writing well-tested code to help the team maintain high code quality standards.

## Responsibilities

- Build and maintain high-throughput backend services using Go.

- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend developers to ship features that support internal support agents across the globe.

- Design systems that are scalable, resilient, and easy to maintain.

- Lead and contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making.

- Write well-tested code and help the team maintain high code quality standards.

## Requirements

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and scaling complex systems.

- 2+ years of production experience in Golang, with the ability to mentor others and drive best practices across the team.

- Strong hands-on experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases , especially Cassandra.

- Solid understanding of designing and operating low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.

## Nice to Have

- Background in Node.js or other backend languages.

- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and event-driven architectures.

- Previous on-call experience, with a pragmatic approach to reliability and incident management.

## What We Value

- A product-oriented mindset , you think beyond the ticket, understand the “why” behind the work, and aim to create real impact for users, having a high level of responsibility.

- Experience leading projects or making key technical decisions, especially in fast-paced environments.

- Clear and proactive communication skills, with a collaborative spirit , we move fast, but we succeed together.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Cassandra
- distributed systems

### Nice to have
- Node.js
- cloud infrastructure
- event-driven architectures
- on-call experience

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