Backend Engineer, Consumer Alliance
HelloFreshResponsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy high-performance, scalable backend services and APIs for the Loyalty and Rewards domain.
- Build features that encourage members to earn, track, and spend reward points, supporting loyalty member ROI.
- Collaborate with frontend and mobile engineering teams to deliver features end to end.
- Rapidly turn hypotheses into live experiments and maintain a high development cadence.
- Contribute to the hypothesis backlog and use customer behavior data to inform what is built.
- Ensure resilient integration across services and domains and support long-term scalability.
Requirements
- At least three years of hands-on experience building and deploying scalable backend services.
- Meaningful regular experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, including verification of their output.
- Proficiency in Go and/or PHP is preferred; experience with Java or Kotlin and willingness to learn Go are also welcomed.
- Strong backend engineering experience with microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures using technologies such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or AWS SQS/SNS.
- Understanding of integrating backend services with web and mobile clients.
- Deep understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL; non-relational databases and GraphQL experience are a plus.
- Practical knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD implementation.
- Solid testing foundation, including unit and end-to-end testing.
- Strong collaboration, prioritization, trade-off decision-making, and cross-funnel product thinking skills.
Benefits
- International collaboration and knowledge sharing across HelloTech teams
- Opportunity to build systems supporting more than 6 million customers
- Influence over architecture, design, quality, and development practices
- End-to-end ownership from problem definition through production
- Access to the Warsaw Centre Point workspace, including showers, breakout zones, outdoor space, cycle parking, coffee, soft drinks, and fruit
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About HelloFresh
HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever! From our 2011 founding in Europe’s vibrant tech hub Berlin, we’re evolving from the world’s leading meal kit company to the world's leading food solutions group. We delivered 243.3 million meals and reached 7.5 million active customers around the world in Q3 2022. HelloFresh Group consists of six brands that provide customers with high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Every ingredient needed for our meals are carefully planned, responsibly sourced and delivered to your door when it’s most convenient for you. Only HelloFresh gives you the tools to achieve something delicious every day. Making a meal a delicious achievement - not just fuel for your day - takes a lot of work and smart people. From Designers and Copywriters to Data Scientists and DevOps Engineers, to potato farmers, pasta makers and the people who ensure every box is perfectly packed for every customer, we’re collectively disrupting the food supply chain and the multi-trillion-dollar food tech industry. Our more than 21,000 high-performing and ambitious employees across the globe from New York to Berlin, London to Sydney and Toronto to Milan enjoy a number of benefits including flexible working arrangements, discounts on our boxes, health and well-being and learning and development programs. We’re always looking for quality ingredients to perfect our recipe, so join us now! https://www.hellofresh.com/careers/locations