Staff Backend Engineer, Plans Squad (f/m/x)
HelloFresh is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join the Plans squad within the Consumer Mega Alliance in Warsaw. You will play a defining, strategic role in shaping the backbone of the mission-critical Customer Plans Domain, which is undergoing a strategic evolution, ensuring reliability and consistency for millions of users. The focus is on re-architecting how millions of customers interact with the product, combined with technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration with senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- ▹Work on the architecture, design, and technical strategy for complex microservices systems, establishing patterns and best practices across teams
- ▹Drive technical decision-making and architectural reviews, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability of the Plans domain
- ▹Conduct analysis, document detailed specifications, and ensure requirements are traceable, verifiable, and aligned with strategic and technical goals
- ▹Lead critical technical initiatives and cross-team projects, aligning technical strategy with business objectives
- ▹Drive adoption of AI-powered tools and methodologies to accelerate development and enhance output quality
- ▹Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of precision, operational excellence, and high-quality engineering
Requirements
- ▹8+ years of backend engineering experience with deep expertise in microservices and distributed event-driven patterns
- ▹Expert-level proficiency in Go or JVM languages
- ▹Proven track record in architectural decisions for large-scale distributed systems and integrations
- ▹Advanced experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures, including production operations at scale
- ▹Extensive experience building event-driven architectures with message bus technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS)
- ▹Deep expertise with relational and NoSQL databases, including performance optimization and schema design
- ▹Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive technical standards across teams
- ▹Excellent communication and collaboration with senior stakeholders and distributed teams
- ▹Meaningful experience using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) in your regular workflow
Nice to have
- ▹Familiarity with e-commerce and subscription-based business models
- ▹GraphQL integration experience
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Global collaboration at scale across HelloTech's international teams
- ▹Building and operating modern systems at global scale for 6+ million customers
- ▹Technical, product, and design leadership in an autonomous, product-led setup
- ▹End-to-end ownership from problem definition to production
- ▹Access to workspace at Warsaw Centre Point with modern facilities
About the company
HelloFresh, through its HelloTech organization of more than 1000 people, builds the digital products powering its end-to-end food experience. HelloTech works in autonomous, cross-functional alliances each owning a product or domain end to end.