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Driving the future: Bolt’s partnership with Pony.ai brings autonomous mobility to Europe
Understanding the ride-hailing economy: insights from 40,000+ drivers
The Ride-hailing Economy Report combines insights from our ongoing conversations with drivers and one of the largest driver surveys ever conducted, gathering input from 40,000 drivers across 25 countries. This
Meet Bolt Send: your fast package delivery service
Introducing Bolt Send, a convenient package delivery service. It’s perfect for surprising a loved one with a gift, returning something a friend left behind, or ensuring an item gets where
Bolt launches the Urban Fund to advance shared mobility’s social impact
Bolt has launched the Urban Fund, a social impact programme designed to accelerate the societal benefits of shared mobility worldwide. The programme will support charitable third-sector partnerships that promote sustainable
Business travel trends for 2025
Attitudes towards business travel are continuing to evolve and divide at a rapid pace. In 2024, nearly half the companies scrutinised their business trips and travel expenses policies, while the
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Stories, solutions & updates from the team at Bolt.
Feature leading at Bolt: More than writing code
At Bolt, engineers don’t just implement tickets. They lead features end-to-end. A feature lead owns the plan, coordinates a cross-platform squad, removes blockers, and drives the rollout to make sure the feature is truly done. This post breaks down Bolt’s feature lifecycle, what goes into a strong system design document, how success metrics and analytics are defined, and how we launch safely through controlled rollouts and A/B tests.
AAAAA Testing: How to make tests AI-friendly
For anyone who develops software, writes code, and eventually writes tests (unit, integration, or component), this article is for you. It doesn’t matter if you’re working on a microservice, a monolith, a frontend app, a mobile client, or a shared library. We’ve all been there: tests that are so complicated they’re harder to read, write, and refactor than the production code they’re meant to validate. If your test suite feels like it’s fighting you, you’ve come to the right place.
Inside Bolt Berlin Engineering: How teams build global mobility products
Teams in Berlin work on product and platform systems used by more than 200 million people worldwide, tackling challenges from experimentation at scale to complex mobile, backend, and data systems. With a strong presence of Product roles, the Berlin hub is defined by close cross-functional collaboration and end-to-end ownership — from early RFCs through experimentation to global rollout. Below, three engineers from our Berlin team show what that looks like in practice.
When one deploy can lock out millions. Engineering at Bolt in Tallinn
Bolt serves more than 200 million customers in 600+ cities. Much of the code behind its rides, deliveries, and rentals is written in Tallinn, where Bolt is headquartered. At this scale, there’s no such thing as a harmless small change. A single deploy can stall a market, yet a 100 ms optimisation can save users thousands of hours a year. This is the everyday reality for engineers like Madis Peetersoo (Engineering Manager, Delivery), Jana Lutus (Junior Software Engineer, Mobility), and Laura-Eliise Marrandi (Junior Software Engineer, Mobility).
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