HelloFresh

Staff Engineer

HelloFresh$150K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in microservices architecture and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices.
  • Proficient in relational and document databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).
  • Strong background in AI technologies and machine learning.
  • Proficiency in Golang or Python programming languages.
  • Excellent communication skills for stakeholder engagement and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior technical authority within the Loyalty & Virality tribe.
  • Drive technical strategy for the referral and virality platform.
  • Take ownership of architecture and development of Share squad's microservices.
  • Champion AI adoption and identify machine learning opportunities.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional agile teams including Product Owners and Engineers.
  • Facilitate technical alignment among diverse engineering stakeholders.

Benefits

  • 75% discount on HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits, 50% off Factor meal box.
  • Comprehensive health and dental benefits, and health spending account from day one.
  • Generous vacation and PTO policy for work-life balance.
  • Parental leave top-up program available for new parents.
  • Support for career growth through dedicated L&D initiatives.
  • Engaging company culture with team socials and fun activities.
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion through impactful employee resource groups.
Full Job Description
Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for
  • You will be a senior technical authority within the Loyalty & Virality tribe - setting architectural direction, driving technical excellence, and mentoring engineers across the team. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with significant influence over how we scale our referral and virality systems globally
  • Define and drive the technical strategy for our referral and virality platform, ensuring systems are flexible, resilient, and scalable across all HelloFresh brands and markets
  • Take end-to-end ownership of the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of the Share squad's microservices
  • Champion the adoption of AIin the squads and machine learning across the tribe, identifying opportunities for personalization, predictive engagement, and intelligent reward optimization.
  • Be an active, solution-oriented member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team, collaborating closely with Product Owners, Engineers, Designers, and BI teams in your direct team and across the organization
  • Communicate effectivelyacross the engineering organisation and facilitate technical alignment among stakeholders and colleagues with different interests.
  • All other duties, as assigned
Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for
  • Strong experience with microservice architecture, event-driven systems (ie: Kafka, RabbitMQ), and distributed architectural patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, as well as CI/CD practices.
  • Proficiency with relational and document databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or MongoDB.
  • AI proficiency and advocacy. Hands-on familiarity with AI technologies and a track record of championing their adoption, whether through AI-assisted development workflows, ML-driven product features, or leveraging LLMs to accelerate team productivity.
  • Proficiency or hands-on production experience in Golang or Python
  • Excellent communication skills. Interacting with frontend developers, designers, product managers, and global teams is part of the day-to-day. You can influence without authority and bring clarity to complex technical topics.
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!
  • 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 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.

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Toronto, ON Pay Range

$150,000-$160,000 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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