Senior Principal Engineer(m/f/d)

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.
The role
As a Sr. Principal Engineer, you lead the definition, design, architecture quality and delivery across HelloFresh services. You will report to the CTO and work with leaders across the teams to define our architectural vision. The Sr. Principal Engineer in this space will develop a deep understanding of HelloFresh Group end-to-end services, business and operations.

What you’ll do

• Steer the engineering projects in multiple locations and drive cross-functional engineering decisions to deliver end-to-end value to our customers.
• Ensure that the teams within HelloFresh are aligned to a consistent technical vision and deliver systems that fit together.
• You lead by example as an exemplary practitioner engineer.
• Mentor and grow staff and principal engineers.
• You simplify and demonstrate innovation, creativity, and judgment when solving challenging problems.
• Align with VP stakeholders - your peers - on the vision and plan.
• You influence multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness. You hold peers and teams to a high bar.
• Find the balance between feature velocity and avoiding accrual of technical debt
• You will need to understand the businesses they are supporting, and balance conflicting stakeholder objectives, while building trust and demonstrating empathy with the customers’ needs.
• Promote best practices in software architecture, design, development, delivery, deployment, and operations.

What you’ll bring

• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• 8+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, Golang, Kotlin.
• 8+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience leading development life cycle process and engineering/operations best practices.

What we offer

Elevate your lifestyle! Join one of Europe’s fastest-growing tech powerhouses in a dynamic phase of expansion.

• Immerse yourself in a diverse global community of 90+ nationalities.
• Enjoy a competitive compensation package that goes beyond the norm, with perks like a HelloFresh- subsidized Pension Scheme, Berlin relocation support, and a Hybrid working model.
• Elevate your lifestyle with exclusive discounts on your weekly HelloFresh box and office meals.
• Invest in your growth with an annual learning & development budget, German language learning budget, and access to the HelloFresh Academy.
• Plus, we’ve got your well-being covered with mental health support, transportation perks, and working-parent-friendly benefits. From our 24/7 gym access,wellbeing platforms like Headspace and Spill, to sabbatical leave options, HelloFresh is not just a workplace; it’s a lifestyle of perks and possibilities!

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.
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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

• Steer the engineering projects in multiple locations and drive cross-functional engineering decisions to deliver end-to-end value to our customers.
• Ensure that the teams within HelloFresh are aligned to a consistent technical vision and deliver systems that fit together.
• You lead by example as an exemplary practitioner engineer.
• Mentor and grow staff and principal engineers.
• You simplify and demonstrate innovation, creativity, and judgment when solving challenging problems.
• Align with VP stakeholders - your peers - on the vision and plan.
• You influence multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness. You hold peers and teams to a high bar.
• Find the balance between feature velocity and avoiding accrual of technical debt
• You will need to understand the businesses they are supporting, and balance conflicting stakeholder objectives, while building trust and demonstrating empathy with the customers’ needs.
• Promote best practices in software architecture, design, development, delivery, deployment, and operations