Backend Engineer, AI Translation & Real-Time Platforms

Wolt; Finland; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

Wolt is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services powering real-time, customer-facing systems, with a focus on AI-powered translation and multilingual support within the MIRA team. You will work with Python/Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, DataDog, SQL/NoSQL, and real-world data to contribute to microservices at scale and shape system architecture.

This role offers the opportunity to impact borderless support across Wolt, DoorDash, and Deliveroo within a global tech

Qualifications

• You have strong backend development skills in Python or Go (interest in other tech is highly appreciated).
• You actively leverage modern AI tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT or similar) to enhance your productivity, code quality, and day-to-day development workflow.
• You have experience with cloud platforms (AWS or similar), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), observability tools (such as DataDog), and database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
• You're a pragmatic problem-solver with a growth mindset, eager to step outside your comfort zone and continuously learn.
• You're comfortable working with real-world data and its nuances.
• You have solid experience designing, building, and integrating quality software (microservices) at scale within a complex domain.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services powering real-time, customer-facing systems
• Develop and evolve AI-powered translation capabilities using LLMs in production
• Help build the tooling and infrastructure needed to evaluate models across quality, latency, and cost
• Collaborate closely with product, applied science, frontend, and platform teams to turn complex support problems into robust user-facing systems
• Take ownership of technical decisions and help shape the architecture and future direction of the system
• Improve the performance, reliability, and operational readiness of services handling real production traffic

Skills

Backend development

Python

Go

AI tools

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Docker

DataDog

SQL

NoSQL

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

DataDog

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Wolt is seeking a backend engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services powering real-time, customer-facing systems, with a focus on AI-powered translation and multilingual support within the MIRA team. You will work with Python/Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, DataDog, SQL/NoSQL, and real-world data to contribute to microservices at scale and shape system architecture.

This role offers the opportunity to impact borderless support across Wolt, DoorDash, and Deliveroo within a global tech