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Tallinn, Estonia

Backend Engineer

No experience
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 28, 2025

Bolt

Ride-hailing, scooters & delivery platform
66.3
Palpable Score
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We are looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our teams in Tallinn. Bolt engineering teams are working on unique product challenges: complex algorithms for demand prediction, optimal real-time pricing, routing, fraud detection, distributed systems and much more.

About the role

As a Backend 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.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

Architecting, designing, developing, and deploying Bolt's growing backend systems.

Contributing ideas and constructive feedback to our product development roadmap.

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 thrive in fast-paced, customer-feedback-driven environments with empathy for end-users.

You excel in making data-driven, metric-based decisions, and leading initiatives to completion.

You have expertise in microservice architecture, API design, and distributed high-volume systems.

You have strong principles in writing clean, secure, and maintainable code that is readable and testable.

You are experienced with cloud systems (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and relational databases.

You are familiar with real-time, asynchronous systems, and highly available infrastructure is a plus.

About the company

Bolt

Company overview
Bolt is a mobility platform offering ride-hailing, micromobility (scooters and bikes), and food and grocery delivery in many cities. Bolt focuses on consumer apps and marketplace operations that match riders, couriers, and drivers with demand. Bolt operates across dozens of countries and positions the product around making cities “for people” through more efficient transport. Bolt is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

Locations and presence

Bolt is headquartered in Tallinn and operates across 50+ countries, with city-based teams supporting local operations. Many roles are city or hub-based, and internships can be explicitly on-site in specific offices depending on the function.

Palpable Score

66.3
/ 100
Bolt has clear early-career entry points through a summer internship route and an 18-month Product Graduate Programme with rotations and mentorship. Hiring steps are described publicly but candidate experience signals are mixed, especially around take-home tasks and process length. Pay and outcomes are harder to score higher because pay transparency varies by posting and Bolt does not publish early-career conversion or progression metrics.
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