Staff Fullstack Engineer
HelloFreshResponsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of scalable backend platforms and distributed systems.
- Drive technical discovery, requirements refinement, and solution architecture for ambiguous problems.
- Translate product and business goals into scalable execution strategies.
- Design and optimize AI-assisted development workflows, including spec-driven development, agent orchestration, context management, automated verification, and quality validation.
- Partner with product, platform, and engineering teams to promote customer-focused product engineering and measurable outcomes.
- Lead architectural discussions, mentor engineers, and establish standards for observability, quality engineering, and system reliability.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and AI tooling to improve engineering effectiveness, software quality, and organizational scalability.
Requirements
- Strong experience with microservice architectures, event-driven systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ, and distributed systems design patterns.
- Hands-on production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Proficiency with relational and document databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or MongoDB.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows, LLM integrations, agentic development patterns, or ML-driven product capabilities.
- Production proficiency with one or more backend languages such as Golang, Python, or Java.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and technical-influence skills when working with frontend engineers, designers, product managers, and distributed teams.
Benefits
- Weekly meal-kit discounts, including 75% off HelloFresh and Chefs Plate and 50% off Factor.
- Health and dental benefits from day one, a Health Spending Account, Headspace access, and GoodLife fitness discounts.
- Generous vacation and paid time off.
- Parental leave top-up program.
- Career progression and continued learning support through the dedicated Learning and Development team.
- Team socials and company events.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and employee resource groups.
- Flexible hybrid work with a minimum of two days in the Toronto office per week, with most teams working in office two to three days weekly.
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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