Posted 4 months ago
Staff Backend Product Engineer, Operations Technology
@ HelloFresh
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
HelloFresh is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for its Ingredient to Product tribe in Toronto. The role leads backend-heavy product problems for menu operations, including the xPS migration in the US market, and bridges Food Systems business leads with Backend Engineering teams. Flexible hybrid with a minimum of 2 office days per week; pay range $180,000 to $215,000 CAD.
Responsibilities:
- Design and own scalable menu operations infrastructure
- Lead the xPS migration in the US market
- Translate Food Systems needs into engineering solutions
- Take technical lead on backend-heavy product problems
- Instrument, monitor and improve services in production
Requirements summary:
- Hands-on experience with AI tooling such as Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot
- Strong Python fluency, Golang a plus
- Experience building distributed systems in production
- Product sense backed by data and user evidence
- Full ownership and bias to ship
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-07-16
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Encouraged to apply | Women |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Generous parental leave, Employee discount, Wellness, Free or discounted meals |
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HelloFresh
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We change the way people eat - forever.
Full company description
HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever! From our 2011 founding in Europe’s vibrant tech hub Berlin, we’re evolving from the world’s leading meal kit company to the world's leading food solutions group. We delivered 243.3 million meals and reached 7.5 million active customers around the world in Q3 2022. HelloFresh Group consists of six brands that provide customers with high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Every ingredient needed for our meals are carefully planned, responsibly sourced and delivered to your door when it’s most convenient for you. Only HelloFresh gives you the tools to achieve something delicious every day. Making a meal a delicious achievement - not just fuel for your day - takes a lot of work and smart people. From Designers and Copywriters to Data Scientists and DevOps Engineers, to potato farmers, pasta makers and the people who ensure every box is perfectly packed for every customer, we’re collectively disrupting the food supply chain and the multi-trillion-dollar food tech industry. Our more than 21,000 high-performing and ambitious employees across the globe from New York to Berlin, London to Sydney and Toronto to Milan enjoy a number of benefits including flexible working arrangements, discounts on our boxes, health and well-being and learning and development programs. We’re always looking for quality ingredients to perfect our recipe, so join us now! https://www.hellofresh.com/careers/locations
- LinkedIn followers
- 435,153
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 17,078
- Reported office locations
- Prinzenstraße 89, Berlin, Berlin 10969, DE
- Prinzenstrasse 89, Berlin, Berlin 10969, DE
- 41 Dovercourt Road, Unit 2, Toronto, Ontario M6J 3C2, CA
- 60 Worship Street, London, London EC2A 2EZ, GB
- 28 Liberty St, New York, New York 10005, US
- Spaklerweg 52, Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1114, NL
- 5-13 Queen Street, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia, Level 3, Chippendale, NSW 2008, AU
- Business categories
- Subscription Service
- Education
- Food Delivery
- Non Profit
- Social Impact
- B2C
- Delivery Service
- Food and Beverage
- Career Planning
- Events
- Other recorded names
- HelloFresh
- Specialties
- Sourcing fresh and organic ingredients
- Creating tasty and balanced recipes
- Delivering always for free
- Valuing customers' feedback
- Sustainable and nutritious meals
- valuing diversity
- and Striving to maintain an inclusive environment
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 367,459,141
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever! From our 2011 founding in Europe’s vibrant tech hub Berlin, we’re evolving from the world’s leading meal kit company to the world's leading food solutions group. We delivered 243.3 million meals and reached 7.5 million active customers around the world in Q3 2022. HelloFresh Group consists of six brands that provide customers with high quality food…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consumer Services |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Berlin |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 2011 |
| Specialties | Sourcing fresh and organic ingredientsCreating tasty and balanced recipesDelivering always for freeValuing customers' feedbackSustainable and nutritious mealsvaluing diversity and Striving to maintain an inclusive environment |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 86 |
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The role
We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Ingredient to Product tribe at HelloFresh. This is a high-impact individual contributor role sitting at the intersection of Food Systems and Backend Engineering — you'll be the technical bridge that identifies business and technical gaps and works with business leads to turn requirements into scalable production systems and solutions.
You'll work across squads within the Food Systems alliance, partnering closely with Backend Engineers to ensure E2E menu operational efficiencies are met, raise the technical bar, and accelerate the tribe's ability to deliver value to our customers.
What you’ll do
At HelloFresh we are moving away from a model where software developers just execute tickets toward one where product engineers are trusted to own customer problems. A Product Engineer takes a problem, forms a point of view, validates it with customers and data, and ships it using AI as a force multiplier.
- Design, build, and own robust, scalable infrastructure for menu operations and be a key driver to ensure a successful xPS migration in the US market.
- Act as the technical bridge between Food Systems business leads and Backend Engineering teams within the Ingredient to Product tribe — translating needs into scalable engineering solutions
- Take the technical lead on backend-heavy product problems, designing, building and operating the services and systems needed to deliver them reliably at scale.
- Work beyond your specialization when the problem demands it. Your specialization is your anchor, not your boundary.
- Operate what you build. You instrument, monitor, and improve your systems in production. Shipping is the beginning of the learning cycle, not the end.
What you’ll bring
- Hands-on experience working with AI tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) beyond casual experimentation. You use AI agents every day. You have a practical sense of how the context you provide to AI tools shapes output quality, and how to set boundaries on AI-generated work.
Strong fluency in Python (Golang is a plus) and hands on experience building distributed systems in production: event-driven and asynchronous flows, clear service contracts, and designing for partial failure. You operate what you build, including its observability and data layer.
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, and you can back that opinion with data and user evidence.
What we offer
- Box Discount - Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 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 to meet your self-care needs, and 25% discount on GoodLife fitness memberships!
- Vacation & PTO - Time off is also an important part of self-care! We offer generous vacation and PTO to help you create a good work-life balance.
- Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents.
- Growth & Development - We support your career progression and invest in your continued learning through experiences and initiatives owned by our dedicated L&D team
- Work Hard & Have Fun - From team socials to engaging company days, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!
- Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - With impactful ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.
Flexible Hybrid Approach
At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work, while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience.
To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how often they work from the office and work from home, in addition to team days and company days. This means a minimum of 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.
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HelloFresh Canada uses AI-integrated technology to help us process and evaluate applications more efficiently. This includes tools that screen and assess candidate qualifications based on the requirements for this role. While these tools assist our workflow, all final selection decisions are made by our hiring team.
This is a posting for an existing vacancy. We are actively seeking to fill this position.
Toronto, ON Pay Range
$180,000—$215,000 CAD
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