Engineering Team Lead

Summary

Join Wolt's Search Relevance team as a Team Lead! You'll coach and mentor a cross-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists, collaborating with department heads to shape the team's vision. Manage stakeholders, ensuring a balance of impact, exploration, and tech debt. Work at Wolt's scale, building ML pipelines and delivering projects related to venue and item ranking, query understanding, and semantic search. Optimize the search stack for speed and low latency, driving team KPIs and proving customer and business impact. This role offers flexibility with remote work options across several tech hubs.

Requirements

• You have a track record of delivering ML to production in scale (ML solutions to millions of users with proven impact)
• You have working experience in Search/Personalization/Recommendations or other related domains (e.g. gaming, auctioning, campaign targeting, etc)
• You can manage senior stakeholders and advocate for trade offs between speed, impact and performance
• Experience in operating and maintaining ML models in production with automated delivery and retraining pipelines
• You know how to evaluate ML models offline, which metrics to use, and how to compare different variants of a model and how to online evaluate the team contributions
• You have solid experience (minimum 1 year) as a people lead of a cross-functional team: competence development, performance evaluation and review, and cross-team collaboration

Responsibilities

• Coach, mentor and lead a cross-disciplinary team of Software Engineers, ML Engineers and Applied Scientists to provide solutions to customer problems with a direct impact on the company’s business KPIs
• Collaborate with the departments Heads of Engineering, Applied Science and Product to shape the team’s vision and delivery roadmap
• Manage the team stakeholders making sure that the team has a healthy balance of impact, exploration and tech debt
• Work at Wolt’s scale: Wolt operates in 27 different markets with as many languages and millions of customers
• Build the team’s ML pipelines that retrieve and rank results for Wolt’s customer queries
• Lead the team on delivering projects such as venue & item ranking, query understanding and classification, or semantic search
• Guide the team on optimizing our stack and models to serve hundreds of results per second with low latency
• Drive the team KPIs and prove customer and business impact

Benefits

• The open role can be based in all of our tech hubs in Helsinki, Stockholm, Berlin or Tallinn, and we're open to remote-working candidates
• You can choose whether you want to work from home, from the office or hybrid
• The compensation will be a negotiable combination of monthly pay and DoorDash RSUs