Bolt Engineering

Our engineers are at the forefront of innovation within some of the largest industries in the world. Are you up for the challenge?

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Creating real-life impact

Our autonomous engineering teams are what makes Bolt tick. They tackle extraordinary problems using state-of-the-art technologies to build products that impact 200+ million users worldwide.

Tech case studies

Engineering teams

Our gateway to a fulfilling career in software development.

Ride-hailing

DriverX

Ride-hailing

RiderX
RiderX drives innovation in the ride-hailing industry, continually redefining the landscape of modern transport services.
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Delivery

Food

Delivery

Market

Rentals

Micromobility

Rentals

Carsharing

Business

Business

Meet our teams

Our teams

Foundations

The Foundations team's mission is to build secure, reusable, sustainable, and highly-available products.
Foundations
Our teams

Delivery

The Delivery team helps customers discover what to order from the Bolt Food and Bolt Market platforms.
Delivery
Our teams

Mobility

The Mobility team helps customers book, order, and use shared-mobility solutions through our ride-hailing app.
Mobility
Our teams

Platform

The platform provides other teams with tailored, cost-effective services and tools that help them build better products and provide better service for our customers.
Platform
Our teams

Information Security

The Information Security team protects the information and systems that support Bolt's operations and assets.
Information Security
Our teams

Data Science

The Data Science team designs experiments, implements predictive models, and mathematically optimises resources.
Data Science
Our teams

Hardware Engineering

The Hardware team is responsible for designing, engineering, producing, and procuring our micromobility vehicles.
Hardware Engineering
Our teams

Commerce

The Commerce team's domain includes all monetary transactions in the Bolt ecosystem.
Commerce
Our teams

Incentives

The Incentives team is at the heart of Bolt's growth strategy, crafting diverse incentive campaigns for users across all business lines. Partnerships, collaboration, user experience, targeted analytics and strategic investments are all key facets of our efforts to fortify Bolt's business growth.
Incentives

Open roles in Engineering

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You'll work end-to-end on data science problems that directly influence Bolt's marketplace - with millions of customers daily across 50+ countries. Your work will range from exploratory analysis and experiment design to building, deploying, and monitoring predictive models in production. You'll identify opportunities through data, validate them through rigorous experiments, and take solutions from research to real-world impact. This is a high-ownership role embedded in a cross-functional product team: you'll partner closely with engineers, product managers, and operations to make sure insights don't stop at a slide deck.
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In this role, you will drive assigned routes in the city, observe the vehicle and its equipment, and report issues or anomalies. You will also help us build a reliable foundation for future operations.
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We are looking for a seasoned Senior Android Engineer to join the RiderX New Demand team. This is a cross-functional team within the rider experience domain, consisting of Backend and Mobile Engineers, QA Engineers, Product Owner, Product Analyst, and Product Designer. The team is at the forefront of innovation, driving the development of new products tailored to untapped demand segments while continuously expanding our existing user base through seamless, diverse, and forward-thinking transportation solutions. By identifying emerging mobility needs and creating compelling new experiences, the team plays a key role in shaping the future of urban transportation. In this role, you’ll work on high-impact product challenges that directly affect Bolt users worldwide. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, Backend Engineers, and QA to deliver a world-class Rider app experience. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll own Android features end-to-end, influence technical direction, and help raise the bar for engineering excellence across the Android platform. Our tech stack: Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Dagger 2, Retrofit , Glide, Room.
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As a Senior Backend Software Engineer based in Tallinn, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and deploying Bolt's growing backend systems, mostly via coding in Node.js and TypeScript (no prior Node.js experience needed). You'll work on unique product challenges including complex algorithms for demand prediction, optimal real-time pricing, routing, fraud detection, and distributed systems, collaborating closely with key internal stakeholders to scalably design backend systems and APIs.
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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and deploying Bolt's growing backend systems. That will mostly happen via coding in Node.js and TypeScript (PS: no previous experience with Node.js is needed). You will be closely collaborating with key internal stakeholders to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs.
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We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Finance Data Warehouse team. You will be responsible for analyzing business requirements and data, building data models, aggregates, pipelines and integrations; and developing metrics, reports and dashboards in the Finance and Commerce domain.
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As a Senior Engineering Manager for Productivity & Internal Tools, you will lead 3 teams inside Bolt's Foundation Platform org — owning the internal developer platform, AI, and productivity systems the whole company builds on. This is a leadership role where the craft shifts to leading through Engineering Managers rather than ICs: you set technical direction, the operating model for delivery, and own the group's staffing, strategy, and long-term health with an impact horizon of 12+ months.
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We seek a proactive and detail-oriented QA Engineer to join our team in Tallinn/Tartu Office in Estonia. You will collaborate closely with Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to ensure high-quality outcomes, taking ownership of the QA process, supporting quality standards, and contributing to efficient testing practices.
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Bolt's SRE Database Reliability team plays a foundational role across all Bolt’s business verticals, directly impacting the quality, resilience, and performance of all services and product lines at scale. Working with a cutting-edge distributed database stack, the team operates in a high-load, high–data-volume environment where each member can make a significant, company-wide impact. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Bolt, you will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly reliable and scalable systems infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, performance optimization, and continuous improvement. The SRE Database Reliability team plays a foundational role across all Bolt's business verticals, operating in a high-load, high-data-volume environment where each member can make a significant, company-wide impact.
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Engineers in the Insights team play a key role in shaping Bolt’s data ecosystem. We own the infrastructure that reliably delivers quality data wherever it’s needed. Data specialists use the tools we build to model and transform raw data into reusable, analysis-ready datasets. We work across the stack - developer tools and frameworks with Python; managing infrastructure with AWS, Terraform, Databricks, and Kubernetes; automations with GitHub Actions and Airflow. We own some data pipelines, but they're not our primary focus.
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Hear from our people

Read what some of our team have to say about creating simple, useful solutions that solve complex challenges and improve how millions move and live.

Vishal Arora
Engineering Manager

Vishal Arora

“Bolt is an engineer’s paradise. Imagine an ecosystem driven by trust, freedom of opinion, facts and data.”

Ave Tarend
Senior Software Engineer

Ave Tarend

“There shouldn’t still be stereotypes surrounding women and IT. Jobs in the IT field require an engineer-like mindset, logical and analytical thinking, and a passion to learn.”

Engineering hubs

We have 600 talented professionals working in our small engineering teams, mainly in our 4 Engineering hubs.

Five steps towards your future

If you're ready to do the best work of your career, follow our 3-step process.

Duration: 30 minutes

Recruiter call

We'll discuss your work experience, relevant technical skills, and motivations. We'll also provide information about our team structure and discuss upcoming projects and relevant technology stacks.
Recruiter call
Duration: 60-75 minutes

1st interview

You'll experience your first live coding round in which you'll solve an algorithmic task. This will test your programming skills and practical knowledge of computer science, security concepts, and data structures.
1st interview
Duration: 90 minutes

2nd interview

Next, you’ll advance to our second interview, a code review exercise. This interview segment will focus on finding issues in existing code, fixing them, and improving the solution. Throughout the interview, we'll evaluate your proficiency in error handling and software design and your ability to tackle software-related challenges effectively.
2nd interview
Duration: 90 minutes

System design interview

Here, you’ll design a distributed system from scratch. The goal is to evaluate your ability to design scalable and reliable systems. We'll also touch upon service operations, including system monitoring and alerting.
System Design Interview
Duration: 60 minutes

Team-fit meeting

Finally, you'll have a behavioural evaluation and team-fit meeting, during which you'll meet with a future lead from your potential team. We'll delve into your motivations and discuss potential career trajectories within Bolt.
Team-fit meeting

Relocation

Our dedicated relocation team will support you and your family during the relocation process, handling all necessary immigration steps and helping you settle into life in your destination country.

What you can expect

Relocation package

Transport to the country of employment.
Temporary accommodation for 1 month.
The first month's rent and broker fee for your permanent residence.
Government fees for necessary documents (visa, residence permit, etc.)
Additional budget for the shipping of personal belongings.
We can also help if you intend to relocate with pets.
Relocation package

Relocation process

You'll have a personal relocation specialist to help with visas, permits, and other necessary documents.
You can choose the most suitable flights for you and your family.
We'll book the temporary accommodation of your choice for you.
Pack your bags and head to the airport!
Relocation package
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