Senior Backend Product Engineer, Consumer
HelloFresh3 days ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Define, design, and implement scalable, resilient architecture for mission-critical microservices.
- Drive global food-profile rollout and development of an implicit profiling engine based on user behavior and ratings.
- Act as technical authority for product architecture, simplifying code, resolving deficiencies, and guiding engineering peers.
- Partner with Product Owners and Designers to shape features, clarify requirements, and align technical solutions.
- Solve complex platform problems, maintain system reliability and performance, mitigate risks, and manage critical escalations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend development experience across monolithic, microservice, and distributed event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding agents such as Copilot or Cursor for planning, debugging, testing, and reusable agent or skill creation, with the ability to verify and constrain generated work.
- Expertise in Go, or proficiency in JVM, Kotlin, Java, or Ruby with willingness to rapidly adapt to Go.
- Experience designing and delivering services with Kubernetes and Docker.
- Extensive practical experience implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Proficiency in software design and distributed architecture patterns, including TDD, BDD, and DDD.
- Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka and/or RabbitMQ.
- Working knowledge of MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with e-commerce, subscription business models, and GraphQL is an advantage.
Benefits
- HelloFresh and partner meal-kit discounts, including 75% off HelloFresh and Chefs Plate and 50% off Factor boxes.
- Health and dental benefits from day one, a Health Spending Account, Headspace access, and a GoodLife fitness discount.
- Generous vacation and paid time off.
- Parental leave top-up program.
- Career progression and continued learning supported by a dedicated Learning and Development team.
- Team socials, company days, employee resource groups, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
- Flexible hybrid work in Toronto with a minimum of 2 office days per week and most teams attending 2–3 days weekly.
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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.