Senior Backend Engineer, Consumer Pricing Team
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
Experience
If you …
- Are a self-driven and experienced backend developer with at least 5 years 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.
Culture
If you …
- Are Passionate about building systems that can scale to global demand.
- Are 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 fulfillment in sharing your learnings with others.
- 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.
Then this role is for you!
About the Company
Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to you. Wolt’s mission is to make cities better places for customers, merchants and couriers alike. Wolt’s local commerce platform makes it easy for customers to order whatever they need on one app, for merchants to make additional sales, and for couriers to make meaningful earnings flexibly. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions, as well as operates its own grocery stores under the brand Wolt Market. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 27 countries today, 23 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.