Backend Engineer, Consumer

HelloFresh; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Box discount

Health & dental benefits

Vacation & PTO

Parental leave top-up

Career development

Team socials

Diversity & inclusion

Food puns

Job summary

HelloFresh in Toronto is seeking a backend engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices as part of our New Ventures team. You will lead migrations from monoliths to microservices, review code, mentor junior engineers, optimize performance, and contribute architectural guidance across distributed systems.

The role embraces a flexible hybrid setup with minimum 3 days in the office; Canada-wide collaboration with global teams, offering a competitive CAD salary.

Qualifications

• Back-end engineer with strong focus on distributed systems and architecture.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Java with microservices experience.
• Experience migrating monoliths to microservices and leading technical initiatives.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and container orchestration tools.
• Solid Agile practices and ability to mentor teammates.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience using AI coding agents to assist codebase onboarding and navigation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable back-end services with distributed architecture.
• Lead migration of critical services from monoliths to microservices with high availability.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers in best practices.
• Analyze performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize efficiency.
• Stay updated on industry trends and help guide tech decisions.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and collaborate with cross‑functional teams.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Microservices

Go

Java

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Agile

Mentorship

Analytical thinking

Communication

AI coding agents

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

S'more about the team

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 userjourney 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!

Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for

• 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.
  

Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for

• Experience: Experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on back-end development and system architecture.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in back-end technologies and programming languages (e.g., Go, Java) and a deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Migration Expertise: Hands-on experience in migrating applications from monolithic architectures to microservices, demonstrating problem-solving capabilities and technical leadership.
• Cloud Proficiency: 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.
• Agile Methodologies: Solid experience in Agile development practices, with an ability to adapt to changing priorities and deliver high-quality results on time.
• Mentorship Skills: Strong mentorship abilities, with a passion for guiding and developing junior/senior engineers while fostering a collaborative team culture.
• Analytical Mindset: Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
• Communication Skills: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. You use AI agents as thought partners to onboard on unfamiliar codebases and navigate new areas of the code with confidence. You have a practical sense of how the context you provide to AI tools - specifications, constraints, examples - shapes output quality, and a developing awareness of how agentic outputs can fail, with growing habits around verifying, testing, and setting boundaries on AI-generated work.

Let’s cut to the cheese, this is why you'll love it here

• 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.
• Food Puns - this one is kind of a big dill if you haven’t already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names!

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 3 days in office per week.

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Toronto, ON Pay Range $100,000—$120,000 CAD