Entry Level Backend Engineer, Kotlin, Consumer Pricing

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, 25 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.

Job Description

What’s our team?

We are the Consumer Pricing Team, responsible for designing and implementing the pricing strategies that balance customer value, market competitiveness, and company profitability. Data is at the heart of everything we do — we leverage A/B testing and data-driven insights to develop dynamic pricing models to optimize delivery and service fees. We’re dedicated to making pricing transparent and easy for customers to understand, integrating it seamlessly into the entire ordering flow. Working closely with data science, business, and operations teams, we ensure our strategies continuously improve the customer experience while driving business growth!

Who are we looking for? 

Wolt’s service was launched in Japan in 2020 and since joining forces with DoorDash last year, we have now grown into a few product development teams locally in Japan. We are now looking for a few Backend Kotlin Engineers and Frontend Engineers to build a new team from the ground up - the Consumer Pricing Team!

As a backend engineer on our team, you’ll collaborate closely with our other talented backend engineers, product lead, designer, and data experts to build and refine our pricing models. You’ll partner with our Web engineers to design and implement pricing configurability in our internal toolings, execute A/B testing experiments, and find the perfect balance between customer satisfaction and company profitability. Your work will directly impact how millions of customers experience our platform, making pricing smarter, fairer, and more transparent. 

Qualifications

If you…

• Are a self-driven junior backend developer with less than 1 year of experience building high-quality software, familiar with modern technologies and cloud platforms. 

• Are familiar with Kotlin – that is a bonus, though not a requirement. We welcome candidates from all technical backgrounds, as we value skills and expertise over specific tech stacks. 

  • Our primary backend stack is Kotlin, running as microservices on Kubernetes managed by AWS. Other stacks include Python, React, and TypeScript.

• Have experience with testing processes and strive to build in quality to all areas of app development, from the user interface to the architecture and codebase.

• thrive in a collaborative environment that spans across teams and countries, and you have the autonomy, ownership, and communication skills to drive projects—whether working independently or with a team. 

• Enjoy a hybrid working environment – we ask that you be based in the Tokyo area. We also offer relocation support to help you settle in smoothly.

If you see yourself being…

• Passionate about building systems that can scale to global demand.

• Excited about writing clean, maintainable code and thoroughly testing it.

• Take pride in delivering high-quality products and are obsessed with product growth.

• Care about consumer pain points and don’t hesitate to roll up your sleeves and get to the very bottom of issues in the name of the customer experience.

• Own your mistakes, and believe in the power of continuous improvement—1% better every day.

• Learn quickly and take fulfilment in sharing your learnings with others whilst having a buddy by your side to take you through the challenges of a Software Engineer at Wolt! 

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