HelloFresh

Backend Engineer, Consumer

HelloFresh$100K — $120K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience with an emphasis on back-end development and system architecture.
  • Proficient in programming languages such as Go and Java, with a deep understanding of distributed systems.
  • Expertise in migrating applications from monolithic to microservices architectures.
  • Familiar with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure, and container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and ability to adapt to shifting priorities.
  • Strong mentorship abilities to guide junior engineers and build a collaborative culture.
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills for technical dialogue with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable back-end services with a focus on microservices.
  • Lead migration of services to a microservices architecture, ensuring high availability.
  • Conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers on best practices.
  • Analyze system performance, identifying bottlenecks and optimizing efficiency.
  • Stay updated on industry trends to enhance the team's technology stack.
  • Contribute to architectural discussions, providing technical insights on solution design.

Benefits

  • 75% discount on HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits, and 50% off Factor meal boxes.
  • Health and dental benefits from day one, plus a health spending account.
  • Generous vacation and PTO for work-life balance.
  • Parental leave top-up for expectant parents.
  • Investment in career growth through dedicated learning and development initiatives.
  • Engaging company culture with team socials and fun activities.
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion with active employee resource groups.
Full Job Description
Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable back-end services, focusing on distributed architecture and microservices.
  • Lead the migration of critical services from a monolithic architecture to a microservices framework, ensuring seamless integration and high availability.
  • Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers, promoting best practices in software development, testing, and deployment.
  • Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to ensure optimal efficiency and reliability of services.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, applying relevant advancements to improve the team's technology stack and processes.
  • Contribute to architectural discussions and decisions, providing technical guidance and insights to shape the overall direction of solution design.
Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for
  • Experience: Experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on back-end development and system architecture.
  • Technical Skills: Proficiency in back-end technologies and programming languages (e.g., Go, Java) and a deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
  • Migration Expertise: Hands-on experience in migrating applications from monolithic architectures to microservices, demonstrating problem-solving capabilities and technical leadership.
  • Cloud Proficiency: Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for deploying and managing services at scale.
  • Agile Methodologies: Solid experience in Agile development practices, with an ability to adapt to changing priorities and deliver high-quality results on time.
  • Mentorship Skills: Strong mentorship abilities, with a passion for guiding and developing junior/senior engineers while fostering a collaborative team culture.
  • Analytical Mindset: Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
  • Communication Skills: Effective verbal and written communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Solid hands-on experience working with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) beyond casual experimentation. You use AI agents as thought partners to onboard on unfamiliar codebases and navigate new areas of the code with confidence. You have a practical sense of how the context you provide to AI tools - specifications, constraints, examples - shapes output quality, and a developing awareness of how agentic outputs can fail, with growing habits around verifying, testing, and setting boundaries on AI-generated work.
Let's cut to the cheese, this is why you'll love it here
  • 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!
  • RRSP Matching - Competitive RRSP matching program offered
  • 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.
  • Food Puns - this one is kind of a big dill if you haven't already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names!


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 3 days in office per week.

#LI-HYBRID

Toronto, ON Pay Range

$100,000-$120,000 CAD

About HelloFresh

HelloFresh SE is a German publicly traded meal-kit company based in Berlin, Germany. It is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States, and also has operations in Canada, Western Europe (including the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Switzerland), New Zealand and Australia. The company was founded in November 2011 in Berlin, Germany by Dominik Richter, Thomas Griesel, and Jessica Nilsson. HelloFresh delivers pre-measured ingredients and recipes to their customers, allowing them to cook meals at home. The company went public in November 2017 and is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Learn more about HelloFresh
Size
18,700 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

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