Senior Backend Product Engineer, Menu Planning

HelloFresh; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

RRSP Matching

Vacation & PTO

Parental leave top‑up

L&D investment

Job summary

HelloFresh Toronto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong backend experience to design and deliver scalable backend platforms and distributed systems. You will partner with engineering, product, culinary, editorial, and business teams to standardize best practices and improve data quality across markets.

Applicants should have production‑level experience with Golang, Python, or Java, plus Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. A CS/Engineering degree and experience building APIs are required.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with one or more backend languages such as Golang, Python, or Java.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices in production.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Hands‑on experience building production‑grade APIs.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases and data across systems (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, S3).
• Experience with event‑driven architecture and messaging (Kafka).
• Cloud environments, containerization, and orchestration (AWS, Docker, Airflow).
• Experience contributing to or designing scalable architecture for internal tools or operational platforms.
• Full‑stack capability with React or another modern FE framework a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable backend platforms and distributed systems.
• Develop and maintain backend services with reliable API interactions for internal app.
• Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and planners to translate domain knowledge into robust logic.
• Evolve the platform toward event‑driven patterns using Kafka.
• Support frontend needs for internal React application, ensuring FE/BE integration.
• Improve reliability via automated testing and performance tuning.
• Engage in pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing to strengthen ownership.

Skills

Golang

Python

Java

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

React

Ownership

Product sense

Communication

AI tooling

Data-driven

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

S3

Kafka

AWS

Airflow

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

Job description

S'more About The Team The Menu Operations team ensures the accuracy, reliability, and consistency of data and workflows across our ecosystem. This role will focus on automated data validation, cross-system reconciliation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and developing scalable solutions that improve data quality and operational efficiency.

This role will work closely with engineering, product, culinary, editorial, and business teams to identify data issues, improve validation processes, and standardize best practices across markets.

As we continue evolving this system, extending its capabilities, and preparing for expansion, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong backend experience, a talent for turning complex logic into clean, reliable systems, and enough full-stack fluency to support and enhance our internal application.

Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What This Role Will Be Responsible For

• 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.
• Design and delivery of scalable backend platforms and distributed systems, leveraging AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows to accelerate delivery and improve system quality.
• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, ensuring scalable, reliable API interactions with our internal application
• Collaborate closely with engineers, analysts, and planners to translate domain knowledge into robust, maintainable system logic
• Contribute to the evolution of the platform toward event-driven patterns using technologies like Kafka
• Support frontend needs for our internal React application, ensuring seamless integration between FE and BE layers
• Improve reliability through automated testing, performance tuning, and thoughtful system design
• Guide as well as learn through pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing to help strengthen collective ownership across a strong, team-first environment
• Participate in shaping the future direction of an advanced system
• All other duties, as assigned

What We're Looking For

• Proficiency and production experience with one or more backend languages such as Golang, Python, or Java.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices in production environments.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Hands‑on experience building production‑grade APIs
• Solid knowledge and experience with relational databases and comfortable working with data across various data systems (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, S3)
• Experience with event‑driven architecture and messaging technologies (Kafka)
• Working knowledge of cloud environments, containerization, and orchestration (AWS, Docker, Airflow)
• Experience contributing to or designing scalable architecture for internal tools or operational platforms
• Full‑stack capability with React or another modern FE framework a plus — enough to support and enhance application
• Strong communication skills and a proactive, collaborative approach to working with engineers, analysts, planners, and product partners
• Comfort working through ambiguity and contributing clarity through simple, pragmatic design choices
• A mindset of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and improving the systems
• 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.
• 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.

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!
• RRSP Matching - Competitive RRSP matching program offered
• 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 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2‑3 days a week.

Toronto, ON Pay Range $120,000—$150,000 CAD