Data Privacy Engineering Manager

HelloFresh; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global collaboration

Global scale impact

Autonomy in leadership

Warsaw workspace

Job summary

HelloFresh is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Data Privacy team within the Order & Subscription Experience Tribe. You will lead a squad of product and backend engineers, translate GDPR/CCPA requirements into a concrete roadmap, and stay technically engaged through architecture reviews and incident debugging without being the primary hands-on contributor.

You’ll own quarterly roadmaps, drive privacy capabilities—consent management, DSAR handling, data retention, and PII classification—and

Qualifications

• Proven people-management experience: hiring, performance management, and developing engineers.
• Experience leading a distributed or multi-location engineering team.
• Deep experience building scalable microservices and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka).
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput backend systems.
• Experience with DevOps practices and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) including observability and production ownership.
• Collaborative mindset and cross-functional work with product, frontend, and data partners.
• Empathetic, strong communicator and active listener.
• Self-organized, autonomous, capable of solving complex problems and removing roadblocks.
• Humble leader able to motivate a team to its highest potential.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a squad of data privacy engineers, including hiring and performance management.
• Own the quarterly roadmap for data privacy with your Product Manager, balancing deadlines and reliability.
• Drive core privacy capabilities: consent management, DSAR handling, retention/deletion pipelines, and PII discovery/classification.
• Own operational health of privacy systems: SLAs, audit trails, and postmortems.
• Partner with Legal, Security, Compliance, and other engineering tribes to embed privacy early in design.
• Represent data privacy engineering in cross-tribe forums and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Champion privacy-by-design practices and maintain accessible documentation.
• Contribute to hiring, capacity planning, and code reviews; mentor engineers.
• Foster a continuous improvement culture and HelloFresh DNA.

Skills

People management

Distributed teams

Microservices

Event-driven

Backend systems

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Cross-functional

Communication

Problem solving

Autonomy

Leadership

Tools

Kafka

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

HelloFresh is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Data Privacy team within the Order & Subscription Experience Tribe. You will lead a squad of product and backend engineers, translate GDPR/CCPA requirements into a concrete roadmap, and stay technically engaged through architecture reviews and incident debugging without being the primary hands-on contributor.

You’ll own quarterly roadmaps, drive privacy capabilities—consent management, DSAR handling, data retention, and PII classification—and