Senior Software Engineer
We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to work on unique product challenges: complex algorithms for demand prediction, optimal real-time pricing, routing, fraud detection, distributed systems and much more. Volumes are growing at a steady pace.
About us
With over 200 million customers in 50+ countries, Bolt is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe and Africa. And it's all thanks to our people.
We believe in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability.
Our ultimate goal is to make cities for people, not cars, and we need your help to achieve this mission!
About the role
Main tasks and responsibilities:
- Architecting, designing, developing, and deploying Bolt's growing backend systems (coding mostly in Node.js and TypeScript)
- Contributing ideas and constructive feedback to our product development roadmap
- Collaborating with key internal stakeholders to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs
- Helping lead features/initiatives from idea to positive execution
- Working closely with Product to slice and dice scope and deliver piece by piece
- Sharing your knowledge by giving tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices in and outside of the team
About you:
- You have experience of thriving in an environment that has a fast customer-feedback cycle and having empathy for the end-user
- You are great at making data-driven and metric-driven decisions
- You have a drive for leading initiatives and features till the end, even if the last mile is the hardest
- You feel at home with microservice architecture and you are experienced in API design
- You have strong principles towards writing clean, simple, secure, and maintainable code
- You possess solid understanding of algorithms and data structures
Experience is great, but what we really look for is drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying if you feel you’re the kind of person described above!
Become part of our Engineering team
Our engineers are at the forefront of innovating one of the largest industries in the world — transport. Are you up for the challenge?
