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About the Role
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 looking for an engineer to help implement solutions & write beautiful code, working with various team members as we build out our consumer facing applications & the infrastructure that supports them.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable back-end services, focusing on distributed architecture and microservices.
- Lead the migration of critical services from a monolithic architecture to a microservices framework, ensuring seamless integration and high availability.
- Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers, promoting best practices in software development, testing, and deployment.
- Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to ensure optimal efficiency and reliability of services.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, applying relevant advancements to improve the team’s technology stack and processes.
- Contribute to architectural discussions and decisions, providing technical guidance and insights to shape the overall direction of solution design.
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on back-end development and system architecture.
- Proficiency in back-end technologies and programming languages (e.g., Go, Java) and a deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Hands-on experience in migrating applications from monolithic architectures to microservices, demonstrating problem-solving capabilities and technical leadership.
- Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for deploying and managing services at scale.
- Solid experience in Agile development practices, with an ability to adapt to changing priorities and deliver high-quality results on time.
- Strong mentorship abilities, with a passion for guiding and developing junior/senior engineers while fostering a collaborative team culture.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Solid hands-on experience working with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) beyond casual experimentation.
- Use AI agents as thought partners to onboard on unfamiliar codebases and navigate new areas of the code with confidence.
- Practical sense of how the context provided to AI tools shapes output quality.
- Developing awareness of how agentic outputs can fail, with growing habits around verifying, testing, and setting boundaries on AI-generated work.
Skills
- Go
- Java
- Distributed Systems
- Microservices Architecture
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Agile Methodologies
- AI Coding Agents
Location
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000—$120,000 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
- Competitive RRSP matching program
- Generous vacation and PTO
- Parental leave top-up program
- Support for career progression and continued learning
- Team socials and company days
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.
- With many exciting projects underway, we’re driven to generate the next billion-dollar business—so if you’re passionate about tackling bold challenges, join us!
- 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.
- Sometimes, this involves implementing features to improve the user journey and making it easier for our customers to buy amazing food.
- Other times, this means creating stable software solutions that keep our distribution centers running.
- 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!
Equal Opportunity
- With impactful ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.