Backend Engineer - AI Translation & Real-Time Systems

Wolt; Finland; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global engineering org

Work with AI/LLMs

Ownership culture

Job summary

Wolt is building AI-powered, real-time customer support systems through the Multilingual Intelligence & Resolution Automation (MIRA) team. This role focuses on scalable backend services and production AI translation capabilities to enable borderless, high-quality customer experiences across languages.

You will work with cloud-native tech, microservices, and modern AI tools to deliver robust, scalable solutions in a global engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Strong backend development skills in Python or Go.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or similar), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), observability tools like DataDog, and database technologies (SQL & NoSQL).
• Comfortable designing, building, and integrating quality software (microservices) at scale.

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 tooling and infrastructure to evaluate models across quality, latency, and cost.
• Collaborate with product, applied science, frontend, and platform teams to turn complex support problems into robust user-facing systems.
• Take ownership of technical decisions and shape system architecture and direction.
• Improve performance, reliability, and operational readiness of services handling real production traffic.
• Explore better ways of working, including using AI tools to improve development workflows.

Skills

Python/Go

Backend development

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Kubernetes

Docker

DataDog

SQL/NoSQL databases

AI tools usage

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

DataDog

Job description

Wolt is building AI-powered, real-time customer support systems through the Multilingual Intelligence & Resolution Automation (MIRA) team. This role focuses on scalable backend services and production AI translation capabilities to enable borderless, high-quality customer experiences across languages.

You will work with cloud-native tech, microservices, and modern AI tools to deliver robust, scalable solutions in a global engineering organization.