Staff Backend Engineer

Strong experience with microservice architectures, event-driven systems (e.g.

Kafka, RabbitMQ), and distributed systems design patterns.

Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices in production environments.

AI proficiency and advocacy.

Hands-on experience leveraging AI technologies through AI-assisted engineering workflows, LLM integrations, agentic development patterns, or ML-driven product capabilities to improve engineering velocity and product outcomes.

Proficiency and production experience with one or more backend languages such as Golang, Python, or Java.

- 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!

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.

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. 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!