About the Role
We are looking for an engineer to help implement solutions and write beautiful code, working with various team members as we build out our consumer facing applications and the infrastructure that supports them. As a member of our Toronto team, you’ll work with highly-skilled engineers, who in collaboration with our other global teams, have turned HelloFresh into the #1 meal delivery service in the world!
Responsibilities
- Be a senior technical authority within the Loyalty & Virality tribe — setting architectural direction, driving technical excellence, and mentoring engineers across the team.
- Define and drive the technical strategy for our referral and virality platform, ensuring systems are flexible, resilient, and scalable across all HelloFresh brands and markets.
- Take end-to-end ownership of the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of the Share squad’s microservices.
- Champion the adoption of AI and machine learning across the tribe, identifying opportunities for personalization, predictive engagement, and intelligent reward optimization.
- Be an active, solution-oriented member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team, collaborating closely with Product Owners, Engineers, Designers, and BI teams.
- Communicate effectively across the engineering organisation and facilitate technical alignment among stakeholders and colleagues with different interests.
Requirements
- Strong experience with microservice architecture, event-driven systems (ie: Kafka, RabbitMQ), and distributed architectural patterns.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, as well as CI/CD practices.
- Proficiency with relational and document databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or MongoDB.
- AI proficiency and advocacy. Hands-on familiarity with AI technologies and a track record of championing their adoption, whether through AI-assisted development workflows, ML-driven product features, or leveraging LLMs to accelerate team productivity.
- Proficiency or hands-on production experience in Golang or Python.
- Excellent communication skills. Interacting with frontend developers, designers, product managers, and global teams is part of the day-to-day.
- Ability to influence without authority and bring clarity to complex technical topics.
Skills
- Microservice architecture
- Event-driven systems
- Distributed architectural patterns
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD practices
- Relational databases
- Document databases
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- AI
- Machine learning
- Golang
- Python
- Communication skills
Location
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Flexible Hybrid
- Remote work flexibility
- Minimum of 2 days in office per week
Experience Level
- Senior technical authority
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000—$160,000 CAD
Benefits
- 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits
- 50% off weekly Factor meal box
- Health & Dental benefits from day 1
- Health Spending Account
- Unlimited access to the Headspace app
- 25% discount on GoodLife fitness memberships
- Generous vacation and PTO
- Parental leave top-up program
- Support for career progression and continued learning
- Team socials and engaging company days
- Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives
About the Company
- Our New Ventures team is focused on growing our global footprint by launching our core products in new markets and expanding across multiple brands and verticals.
- We’re a globally distributed team operating across 7+ brands in 15+ countries, building desirable products and seamless, engaging experiences that customers haven’t seen before.
- We are driven to generate the next billion-dollar business.
- We are a close-knit group of engineers of different stripes - developers, designers, and product owners - who are working together to solve interesting e-commerce and supply chain problems around how people eat.
- HelloFresh is the #1 meal delivery service in the world!
