About the Role
Define and execute the product strategy for Bolt's matching and dispatching engine, a core system for real-time rider-driver connection. This role impacts rider experience, driver earnings, and platform efficiency at scale.
Responsibilities
- Define the product strategy and roadmap for the dispatching engine, sequencing ML/RL investments with near-term improvements.
- Coordinate the productionisation of ML and RL models through the full lifecycle.
- Own and improve the performance of the existing matching stack during the development of the new engine.
- Define and maintain the signal contract between matching and pricing.
- Design experiments, evaluate results, and translate complex algorithmic trade-offs for stakeholders.
- Set priorities and resolve trade-offs within a cross-functional pod, owning matching KPIs.
Requirements
- Experience shipping machine learning models into production systems for real-time allocations at scale.
- Experience with allocation, matching, dispatch, or equivalent real-time systems in a two-sided marketplace or logistics platform.
- Experience maintaining a live production system while building its replacement.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional product pods and working across organizational boundaries.
- Ability to move fluently between detailed statistical evaluation and clear stakeholder communication.
- Direct exposure to reinforcement learning in production, or experience with teams that deployed RL systems.
Skills
- Machine learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Product strategy
- Roadmap definition
- A/B testing
- Data analysis
- Stakeholder communication
- Experiment design
- Supply-demand dynamics
- Global vs. local optimisation
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal
Benefits
- Rewarding salary
- Stock options
- Wellness perks
- 1-month paid sabbatical after 5 years
- Annual company events
- Team gatherings
About the Company
- Bolt is one of Europe and Africa's fastest-growing tech companies with over 200 million customers in 50+ countries.
- The company's mission is to make cities for people, not cars.
Equal Opportunity
- Bolt believes in creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability.
