Staff Backend Engineer, Customer Value Optimization
HelloFreshBase Salary
$190k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own robust, scalable infrastructure for live serving of ML models in production.
- Bridge Data Science and Backend Engineering teams by translating data science needs into scalable engineering solutions.
- Define and drive best practices for model serving, APIs, and system design across squads.
- Lead cross-squad technical initiatives from architecture decisions through hands-on implementation.
- Partner with Data Scientists to ensure models are production-ready, performant, observable, and maintainable.
- Contribute to tribe-wide engineering standards and shape the technical roadmap.
- Mentor and support engineers across squads without direct line management responsibility.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a strong foundation in Python.
- Proven experience building and operating ML model serving systems or ML platforms in production.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architecture.
- Strong track record delivering complex cross-functional projects across team boundaries.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Data Engineers.
- Collaborative, low-ego approach with strong technical judgment.
- Preferred: experience with ML frameworks and serving tools; familiarity with feature stores, model registries, or MLOps tooling; and experience in e-commerce, subscription, or personalization domains.
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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