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 Staff Engineer within the Engagement Alliance at HelloFresh, you will play a pivotal role in designing and developing resilient, scalable, and flexible software solutions aimed at shaping the future of Customer Care services. Operating within the Customer Care domain, you will harness cutting-edge technologies, including generative AI, to equip our teams with the tools necessary for resolving customer queries and mitigating delivery and box errors. You are responsible for supporting the design, development, and maintenance of our software across multiple teams with various dependencies. As a Staff Engineer at HelloFresh, you will be challenged as a senior technical leader and have an opportunity to work with highly competent colleagues on challenging engineering problems and have a great impact on the organisation.
Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What you’ll do

• As a Staff Engineer, you will be able to take responsibility for end-to-end software design and development processes, across the entire tech organization when needed.
• Cooperate with other senior engineers to promote best practices in software architecture, design, development, delivery and deployment, and operations (DevOps Practices, Pair Programming, TDD, streaming, pub/sub, etc.)
• Lead teams in ensuring we are adopting and using effectively state-of-the-art technologies.
• Be actively involved in large, strategic tech initiatives, such as distributed data mesh, streaming data, microservice architectures, code refactoring best practices, API definition, CI/CD implementation and more.
• Collaborate closely with our leadership in Tech, Product, Data and Business to improve our process, methodologies, communication flows, etc.
• Be an ambassador for HelloTech brand and partners in hiring to our Talent Acquisition Team.

What you’ll bring

• You have 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong engineering and architecture experience and extensive knowledge in APIs and Microservices.
• Solid programming and architectural skills in one or more of our core languages: Kotlin/Java, Golang, php.
• Professional knowledge and experience of commonly used technologies: Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, SQL as well as best practices.
• An ability to act as an advocate for best tech practices, such as CI/CD, TDD, BDD, DDD, and Design Patterns.
• Experience in improving the environment in which you are working, for technology, methodology, and team collaboration.
• The ability to mentor other developers and host knowledge sharing sessions.
• An agile mindset with the ability to advocate for cross-functional collaboration.
• You have experience with DevOps practices and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

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
• Subsidised childcare with a professional nannying agency
• Free access to Headspace, biweekly in-house yoga classes (remote since March 2020)
• 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 neighbouring gym & Urban Sports Club, company events and 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

Are you up for the challenge?
Please submit your complete application below including your salary expectations and earliest starting date.
After submitting an application our team will review this and get back to you within 5 business days.
For insight into our interview process take a look at our recent post here.

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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

• As a Staff Engineer, you will be able to take responsibility for end-to-end software design and development processes, across the entire tech organization when needed.
• Cooperate with other senior engineers to promote best practices in software architecture, design, development, delivery and deployment, and operations (DevOps Practices, Pair Programming, TDD, streaming, pub/sub, etc.)
• Lead teams in ensuring we are adopting and using effectively state-of-the-art technologies.
• Be actively involved in large, strategic tech initiatives, such as distributed data mesh, streaming data, microservice architectures, code refactoring best practices, API definition, CI/CD implementation and more.
• Collaborate closely with our leadership in Tech, Product, Data and Business to improve our process, methodologies, communication flows, etc.
• Be an ambassador for HelloTech brand and partners in hiring to our Talent Acquisition Team