Senior Backend Product Engineer, Menu Planning
HelloFresh2 days ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver scalable backend platforms, distributed systems, and reliable API interactions for the internal application.
- Develop and maintain backend services that improve menu data accuracy, validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with engineers, analysts, planners, product partners, culinary teams, editorial teams, and business stakeholders to translate domain knowledge into maintainable system logic.
- Contribute to event-driven platform architecture using Kafka and support frontend integration for the internal React application.
- Operate production systems by instrumenting, monitoring, troubleshooting, improving reliability, tuning performance, and applying automated testing.
- Participate in pairing, design discussions, knowledge sharing, platform direction, and collective ownership.
- Use AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows, including practical daily use of AI tools, to accelerate delivery and improve system quality.
Requirements
- Production proficiency with one or more backend languages such as Go, Python, or Java.
- Hands-on production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud environments, containerization, orchestration, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience building production-grade APIs and designing scalable architecture for internal tools or operational platforms.
- Experience with relational databases and data across PostgreSQL, Snowflake, S3, and other data systems.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging technologies such as Kafka.
- Working knowledge of AWS and Airflow.
- Full-stack capability with React or another modern frontend framework is a plus.
- Strong communication, collaboration, proactive ownership, comfort with ambiguity, continuous-learning mindset, and product sense supported by data and user evidence.
- Hands-on experience with AI tooling such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot beyond casual experimentation, including practical use of AI agents and context management.
Benefits
- 75% discount on one weekly HelloFresh or Chefs Plate meal kit box and 50% discount on a weekly Factor meal box.
- Health and dental benefits from day one, a Health Spending Account, Headspace access, and a 25% GoodLife fitness membership discount.
- Competitive RRSP matching program.
- Generous vacation and PTO.
- Parental leave top-up program.
- Career development and continued-learning support through the dedicated L&D team.
- Team socials, company days, employee resource groups, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
- Flexible hybrid work with remote flexibility and a minimum of two days in the office per week, with most teams working in the office two to three days weekly.
- The employer uses AI-integrated technology to process and evaluate applications, with final selection decisions made by the hiring team.
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About HelloFresh
HelloFresh builds subscription meal kits for households, delivering pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to cook at home. The company sells direct-to-consumer across North America, Europe, and Australia under multiple brands, with revenue from recurring subscriptions and add-ons like market items. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Berlin, HelloFresh is a public company listed in Germany (ETR) and operates its own fulfillment and last-mile logistics.