Description
Job Overview
We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Wolt AdTech & Promotions organization, driving technical direction and building reliable, scalable systems that directly impact revenue and advertiser success.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical vision and architecture for Wolt's AdTech and Promotions platforms, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and high-performing.
- Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and projects, bringing architectural consistency to complex, large-scale systems.
- Work across the end-to-end domain, contributing to backend services, data pipelines, and advertiser-facing tools.
- Design and evolve systems that support campaign execution, targeting, ranking, allocation, and reporting in real-time or near real-time environments.
- Partner with engineering, product, and data stakeholders to align priorities, improve campaign performance, and manage trade-offs in a revenue-driven environment.
- Lead large cross-team projects, guiding them from concept to rollout across multiple regions and time zones.
- Ensure strong operational excellence, including observability, reliability, and incident readiness for revenue-critical systems.
- Promote best engineering practices, mentor engineers across teams, and support their growth in scalability and system design.
- Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical colleagues, ensuring clarity and alignment across functions.
- Contribute to the technical roadmaps of AdTech and Promotions platforms by collaborating with other senior engineers.
Requirements
Technical Expertise
- Proven track record designing and scaling large distributed systems in production environments.
- Strong understanding of system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
- Experience working with data-intensive and real-time or near real-time systems.
- Familiarity with AdTech concepts such as targeting, ranking, attribution, or experimentation is a strong plus.
- Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and languages; while many of our services are written in Kotlin and Go, we are looking for someone language-agnostic.
- Ability to dive quickly into new domains and navigate complex system interactions.
- Familiarity with modern cloud-native tools and data systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB).
Communication & Influence
- Strong communicator with the ability to influence, align, and build consensus across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in a global environment across US and international teams.
- Skilled at translating complex technical decisions into clear direction for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, helping raise the technical bar across teams.
- Strong sense of ownership combined with a collaborative mindset, able to work effectively across team boundaries to deliver shared outcomes.
- Proactive in identifying opportunities and gaps across teams, and driving alignment to solve problems holistically rather than locally.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary with DoorDash RSUs
- Opportunity to work on challenging AdTech problems at scale
- End-to-end ownership and high autonomy
- Strong opportunities for career growth and scope expansion
- Collaborative and diverse work environment