About the company
HelloFresh is a leading meal kit company. The Menu Operations team ensures the accuracy, reliability, and consistency of data and workflows across the ecosystem. This role focuses on automated data validation, cross-system reconciliation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and developing scalable solutions that improve data quality and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Work beyond your specialization when the problem demands it.
- Operate what you build: instrument, monitor, and improve systems in production.
- Design and delivery of scalable backend platforms and distributed systems, leveraging AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows.
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services, ensuring scalable, reliable API interactions with the internal application.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, analysts, and planners to translate domain knowledge into robust, maintainable system logic.
- Contribute to the evolution of the platform toward event-driven patterns using technologies like Kafka.
- Support frontend needs for the internal React application, ensuring seamless integration between FE and BE layers.
- Improve reliability through automated testing, performance tuning, and thoughtful system design.
- Guide as well as learn through pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in shaping the future direction of an advanced system.
Requirements
- Proficiency and production experience with one or more backend languages such as Golang, Python, or Java.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices in production environments.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
- Hands-on experience building production-grade APIs.
- Solid knowledge and experience with relational databases and comfortable working with data across various data systems (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, S3).
- Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging technologies (Kafka).
- Working knowledge of cloud environments, containerization, and orchestration (AWS, Docker, Airflow).
- Experience contributing to or designing scalable architecture for internal tools or operational platforms.
- Full-stack capability with React or another modern FE framework a plus.
- Strong communication skills and a proactive, collaborative approach.
- Comfort working through ambiguity and contributing clarity through simple, pragmatic design choices.
- A mindset of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and improving the systems.
- Hands-on experience working with AI tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) beyond casual experimentation.
- You take full ownership. You have a bias to ship. You finish the last twenty percent.
- You have product sense and are opinionated about what should be built and why.
Conditions
- Box Discount: 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box.
- Health & Wellness: Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, unlimited access to the Headspace app, and 25% discount on GoodLife fitness memberships.
- RRSP Matching: Competitive RRSP matching program offered.
- Vacation & PTO: Generous vacation and PTO.
- Family Benefits: A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents.
- Growth & Development: Support for career progression and continued learning.
- Work Hard & Have Fun: Team socials and engaging company days.
- Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives: ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES.
- Flexible Hybrid Approach: Remote work flexibility along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office.