Description
The role
We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Ingredient to Product tribe at HelloFresh. This is a high-impact individual contributor role sitting at the intersection of Food Systems and Backend Engineering — you'll be the technical bridge that identifies business and technical gaps and works with business leads to turn requirements into scalable production systems and solutions.
You'll work across squads within the Food Systems alliance, partnering closely with Backend Engineers to ensure E2E menu operational efficiencies are met, raise the technical bar, and accelerate the tribe's ability to deliver value to our customers.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and own robust, scalable infrastructure for menu operations and be a key driver to ensure a successful xPS migration in the US market.
- Act as the technical bridge between Food Systems business leads and Backend Engineering teams within the Ingredient to Product tribe — translating needs into scalable engineering solutions
- Define and drive best practices for model serving, APIs, and system design across squads
- Lead cross-squad technical initiatives, from architecture decisions to hands-on implementation
- Partner with internal engineer teams to ensure production services — are performant, observable, and maintainable
- Contribute to tribe-wide engineering standards and shape the technical roadmap
- Mentor and support engineers across squads without direct line management responsibility
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong foundation in Python, Kotlin, GoLang
- Proven track record in taking architectural decisions about the development and maintenance of large-scale distributed systems and integrations with applications and user interfaces
- Advanced experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures, including production operations at scale
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architecture
- Strong track record of working across team boundaries to deliver complex, cross-functional projects
- Meaningful experience using AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) as part of your regular workflow
- A collaborative, low-ego approach with strong technical judgment
What we offer
- Box Discount - Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box.
- Health & Wellness - Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, unlimited access to the Headspace app to meet your self-care needs, and 25% discount on GoodLife fitness memberships!
- Vacation & PTO - Time off is also an important part of self-care! We offer generous vacation and PTO to help you create a good work-life balance.
- Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents.
- Growth & Development - We support your career progression and invest in your continued learning through experiences and initiatives owned by our dedicated L&D team
- Work Hard & Have Fun - From team socials to engaging company days, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!
- Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - With impactful ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.
Flexible Hybrid Approach
At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work, while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience.
To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how often they work from the office and work from home, in addition to team days and company days. This means a minimum of 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.
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HelloFresh Canada uses AI-integrated technology to help us process and evaluate applications more efficiently. This includes tools that screen and assess candidate qualifications based on the requirements for this role. While these tools assist our workflow, all final selection decisions are made by our hiring team.
This is a posting for an existing vacancy. We are actively seeking to fill this position.
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