Senior Backend Product Engineer - Go and/or JVM (all genders)
HelloFreshResponsibilities
- Own the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operation of backend microservices under a full DevOps model.
- Lead backend-heavy product problems and build reliable services and distributed systems at scale.
- Develop event-driven and asynchronous systems using messaging technologies and expose data through REST and gRPC interfaces.
- Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Create and execute testing coverage from unit tests through end-to-end tests.
- Operate production systems by instrumenting, monitoring, and continuously improving them.
- Collaborate with product leads, frontend engineers, designers, and data teams in cross-functional squads.
- Provide technical guidance and participate in code and architecture reviews.
- Use AI tools and workflows such as Claude, Cursor, and Copilot to improve engineering delivery.
- Form product opinions, validate customer problems with data and user evidence, and own delivery through completion.
Requirements
- Strong fluency in Go or a JVM language such as Java or Kotlin, with willingness to expand into Go.
- Hands-on production experience building, deploying, and operating critical backend services and distributed systems.
- Experience with event-driven and asynchronous flows, service contracts, partial-failure design, messaging queues, containerization, and deployment infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering judgment and practical experience with design approaches such as TDD, BDD, or DDD.
- Hands-on daily experience with AI tooling such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot beyond casual experimentation.
- Ability to operate systems including their observability and data layers.
- Excellent communication skills for working in an international, multidisciplinary technical environment.
- Strong ownership, delivery focus, product sense, and ability to support technical trade-off decisions.
Benefits
- International collaboration with experienced engineers and product partners and an active knowledge-sharing culture.
- Opportunity to build technology supporting millions of customers and global supply-chain operations.
- Ability to influence technical, product, and design leadership, architecture, quality, and ways of working.
- End-to-end ownership from problem definition through production delivery and long-term scalability.
- 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