Staff Engineer

S'more about the team

Our New Ventures team is focused on growing our global footprint by launching our core products in new markets and expanding across multiple brands and verticals. We’re a globally distributed team operating across 7+ brands in 15+ countries, building desirable products and seamless, engaging experiences that customers haven’t seen before. With many exciting projects underway, we’re driven to generate the next billion-dollar business—so if you’re passionate about tackling bold challenges, join us!

We are a close-knit group of engineers of different stripes - developers, designers, and product owners - who are working together to solve interesting e-commerce and supply chain problems around how people eat. Sometimes, this involves implementing features to improve the user
journey and making it easier for our customers to buy amazing food. Other times, this means creating stable software solutions that keep our distribution centers running.

We are looking for an engineer to help implement solutions & write beautiful code, working with various team members as we build out our consumer facing applications & the infrastructure that supports them. As a member of our Toronto team, you’ll work with highly-skilled engineers, who in collaboration with our other global teams, have turned HelloFresh into the #1 meal delivery service in the world!

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.