[TECH] [ENGINEERING] Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Kotlin) (m/f/x)
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.
Each year HelloFresh launches more markets and more brands, and all of those require our technology infrastructure to keep the engine running. SCM is at the core of HelloFresh and the foundation for everything we do. All HelloFresh processes rely on SCM Tech to operate. We manage the contracts with our suppliers, place orders, control the receipt of goods, handle inventory, keep track of the box labeling and production, and keep a close connection with different areas of the company, from Finance to Operations. Our challenge is to improve efficiency and reduce waste across the supply chain. Our vision is to build the world’s leading, scalable, fully-integrated, food supply chain management platform.
The role
In this role, you will join as a Senior Backend Engineer for the DASH squad within our Supply Chain Management teams. If you are not familiar with SCM you can read more about it here. You will have the opportunity to learn and use DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices to deliver incremental and continuous business value.
You will contribute to designing and developing our next generation of production live metrics platform, which helps drive the production processes behind HelloFresh products. You will receive support throughout your journey via mentorship, workshops, and pair programming.
Our Backend Engineers assume development and operational responsibility for the SCM Tech platform that serves all of our internal users for operational purposes.
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
Work in a cross-functional team, typically 3-5 people, using various technologies and frameworks. Your team will be a place where your thoughts and opinions matter, and your contributions will tremendously impact the team's success.
- Take ownership of the architecture, design, development, deployment and operations of the services that drive production process metrics computation and publishing.
- Be an active, solution-oriented member of autonomous, cross-functional agile teams collaborating with Data Engineers and Analysts, Product Owners, and Business Intelligence teams.
- Having an in-depth understanding of HelloFresh’s core product and architecture and acting as an ambassador for software solutions, offering support and mentorship to colleagues
- Work with technologies like Kotlin, Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, Istio, and more
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience with software development in Kotlin or Java, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
- Knowledge of relational and document databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
- Have demonstrable experience working with Docker and k8s, with databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB and in-depth work with event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ and/or Kafka.
- Passion for software engineering, as shown by previous work experience, projects, or publications.
- Strong communication skills. Able to communicate complex technical or domain topics to stakeholders, peers and junior engineers.
- You thrive in the opportunity to collaborate and mentor team members while also sharing practical knowledge and trends.
- Ability to advocate for engineering best practices such as TDD and DDD.
Interacting with data engineers and analysts, product owners, and our teams worldwide is part of our daily work, so communication skills are vital. We are looking for strong problem-solvers who can apply their engineering skills to various platforms and environments while acting as ambassadors to coach team members and stakeholders.
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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.
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