Director of Engineering

at  HelloFresh

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world’s leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor, and Youfoodz.
About HelloFresh:
At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Even after celebrating our 10-year
anniversary, we continue to see this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world’s leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy and sustainable options.
The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor, and Youfoodz. HelloFresh has expanded rapidly as a technology organization. As part of scaling as an engineering team, we’ve created a Foundations Alliance to be responsible for unleashing developer productivity across the company. We do so by building the tools, services, systems, and infrastructure that teams across the company (and in turn, HelloFresh customers) use on a daily basis. We are building platforms (cloud, mobile, design systems) for engineers to be able to quickly innovate while providing operational safety, security, and best practices out of the box.
About the Team
Our TAM Expansion team aims to grow our global footprint by launching our core products in different markets and expanding our offerings through multiple brands and verticals. We are a globally-distributed team working together on 7+ brands in 15+ countries. There are lots of other exciting projects on the go, so if you are passionate about taking on challenges like this, join us!

What you’ll do

• Lead the tribe which has the aim to empower HelloFresh businesses to convince more customers to try, recommend or return to our products.
• Lead 3 to 5 engineering managers and support support a greater organization/alliance of 50+ members
• Hire, inspire, manage, and grow cross-functional engineering teams, ensuring every engineer has adequate growth opportunities.
• Work with product and design partners to identify the business areas where their teams can add value, and drive the team to deliver success in these areas
• Provide valuable and timely feedback to your team, and manage the performance of your organization.
• Set and ensure the upholding of high standards and software engineering best practices for quality, scalability and customer focus.
• Be part of the engineering leadership team and help set strategy and goals across multiple engineering teams.
• Play a key role in ensuring the ongoing alignment of our technology with the overall business strategy for the company.

What you’ll bring

• You have solid experience in building customer-facing products at scale and managing multiple engineering teams and individual contributors.
• Relevant engineering experience managing engineering managers in a fast paced dynamic environment.
• A strong technical background, demonstrated in past engineering leadership roles with a clear impact towards achieving business goals.
• Strong architectural skills and the capacity to design flexible, resilient, and scalable distributed systems.
• Demonstrable past experience with Agile methodologies, with focus on data-driven experimentation, lean thinking and quick iterations.
• Proven track record of creative problem solving and the desire to create and build new processes.
• Ability to build effective and clear communication in a fast growing engineering organization.
• Proven ability to influence others and facilitate agreement among stakeholders with different interests

What we offer

• Comprehensive relocation assistance to move to Berlin plus visa application support
• Healthy discount on weekly HelloFresh boxes
• Annual learning and development budget to attend conferences or purchase educational resources plus access to the HelloFresh Academy
• Subsidized child care with a professional nannying agency
• Free access to Headspace, biweekly in-house yoga classes
• A diverse and vibrant international environment of 70+ different nationalities
• Additional perks include: Free crash course in German, compensation for advanced external German classes, discounts for our neighboring gym & Urban Sports Club, summer & winter parties, discount on our Convini vending machines
• The chance to have a significant impact on one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe in an exciting growth phase

About HelloFresh
We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!
At HelloFresh, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.
We want to adapt our processes and create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate our process. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with us in the application form.
To learn more about what it’s like working inside HelloFresh, follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn.

HelloFresh is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, please reach out to us at:

• Europe: EUaccommodations@hellofresh.com.
• APAC: APACaccommodations@hellofresh.com
• United States: USCandidateAccommodations@hellofresh.com
• Canada: CAaccommodations@hellofresh.com

• Lead the tribe which has the aim to empower HelloFresh businesses to convince more customers to try, recommend or return to our products.
• Lead 3 to 5 engineering managers and support support a greater organization/alliance of 50+ members
• Hire, inspire, manage, and grow cross-functional engineering teams, ensuring every engineer has adequate growth opportunities.
• Work with product and design partners to identify the business areas where their teams can add value, and drive the team to deliver success in these areas
• Provide valuable and timely feedback to your team, and manage the performance of your organization.
• Set and ensure the upholding of high standards and software engineering best practices for quality, scalability and customer focus.
• Be part of the engineering leadership team and help set strategy and goals across multiple engineering teams.
• Play a key role in ensuring the ongoing alignment of our technology with the overall business strategy for the company