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# Senior Backend Product Engineer - Python and/or Go (all genders) at HelloFresh

- **Company:** HelloFresh
- **Location:** Warszawa Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
- **Posted:** 2026-06-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://careers.hellofresh.com/global/en/job/8028077?gh_jid=8028077

## Job description

At HelloFresh, the goal is to change the way people eat forever by delivering high-quality food across 18 countries and 3 continents. As a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit provider, the portfolio includes HelloFresh, Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.

Engaging with HelloFresh in Warsaw means collaborating with HelloTech—a global technology division of over 1,000 people powering an end-to-end food ecosystem. From digital personalization and forecasting to supply chain optimization and food waste reduction, technology drives every step of this direct-to-consumer model.

About the Role: What's in the Box

HelloTech operates in autonomous, cross-functional alliances, each holding accountability for a specific product domain end to end. The service provider will join an assigned squad, with the flexibility to transition between teams and projects as technical objectives and business priorities evolve.

Several technical domains are actively engaging providers. Projects will be aligned based on individual strengths and expertise during the process. Key technical domains include:

- Marketing Customer Profile squad: Builds AI-powered backend systems that automate campaign execution end-to-end, from content generation and validation to multi-channel delivery across email, SMS, and push.
- Conversions Tribe: supporting the "Reachable Audience" and Personalization initiatives. The mission is to build the systems that power customized user journeys at scale.

Across all domains, the technical profile consists of highly available, event-driven distributed systems serving global architectures. This role does not include people management responsibilities.

What You’ll Do: The Recipe

At HelloFresh we are moving away from a model where software developers just execute tickets toward one where product engineers are trusted to own customer problems. A Product Engineer takes a problem, forms a point of view, validates it with customers and data, and ships it using AI as a force multiplier.

- Take the technical lead on backend-heavy product problems, designing, building and operating the services and systems needed to deliver them reliably at scale under a full DevOps model..
- Build event-driven systems utilizing messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS/SNS, and expose data via clean REST and gRPC interfaces.
- Work extensively with Docker, container orchestration via Kubernetes, and CI/CD automated deployment pipelines.
- Maintain a strong commitment to testing, executing robust test suites stretching from unit tests through to full end-to-end coverage.
- Collaborate closely within cross-functional agile teams including product leads, frontend engineers, designers, and data teams.
- Provide technical guidance and support to surrounding team members, actively participating in code and architecture reviews.
- Leverage modern AI tools and workflows (e.g., Claude, Cursor) as a standardized component of engineering delivery to increase productivity.
- 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.

What You’ll Bring: The Ingredients

- 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.
- Strong fluency in Go or Python and hands on experience building distributed systems in production: event-driven and asynchronous flows, clear service contracts, and designing for partial failure. High proficiency in one stack is required, with a willingness to expand technical knowledge into Go. You operate what you build, including its observability and data layer.
- Solid experience building, deploying, and operating critical backend services in a production environment.
- Technical comfort navigating distributed systems, messaging queues, containerization, and modern deployment infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering instincts, including practical application of design methodologies like TDD, BDD, or DDD, and the ability to make sensible technical trade-offs.
- Excellent communication capabilities to operate effectively inside an international, multi-disciplinary technical environment.
- 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.

What We Offer: The Toppings

- Global collaboration at scale: Collaborate with experienced engineers and product partners across HelloTech’s international teams, in a culture of active knowledge sharing.
- Technology with real-world impact: Build and operate modern systems at global scale, supporting millions of customers and complex supply chain operations.
- Technical/Product/Design leadership: Drive best practices and influence architecture/design, quality, and ways of working in an autonomous, product-led setup.
- End-to-end development/delivery: Drive decisions from problem definition to production, improving systems and enabling long-term scalability.
- Access to workspace at Warsaw centre: The hub offers modern facilities including showers, breakout zones, outdoor space, cycle parking, and refreshments (coffee, soft drinks, and fruit).

## #ENGINEERING

## About HelloFresh

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HelloFresh is a global meal-kit and food solutions company that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and recipes directly to consumers, aiming to revolutionize the way people eat by making home cooking accessible, convenient, and sustainable.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Ticker: HFG on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Dominik Richter, Thomas Griesel, Jessica Nilsson

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Meal Kit Delivery / Integrated Food Solutions
- **Target Customers**: B2C – primarily busy households, couples, and individuals looking for convenient, high-quality meal options. Also serves the ready-to-eat and pet food markets.
- **Mission Statement**: "Democratizing access to high-quality food" by allowing everyone to enjoy a varied, tasty diet while helping consumers save money and reduce food waste.

## Products & Services
- **HelloFresh (Core Meal Kits)**: The flagship subscription service offering pre-portioned ingredients and step-by-step recipes for a wide variety of meals. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **Factor_**: A ready-to-eat, chef-prepared meal delivery service (operates in the US, Canada, and Australia). Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **Youfoodz**: A ready-to-eat meal brand in Australia. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **EveryPlate**: A budget-friendly meal kit brand in the US and Australia. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **Chefs Plate**: A meal kit brand in Canada. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **Green Chef**: An organic-focused meal kit brand in the US. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **The Pet Food Brands**: Premium pet food delivery services (e.g., The Pets Table in the US). Type: Subscription-based physical goods.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: As a public company, market cap fluctuates. As of mid-2025, it is approximately €1.5-2.0 billion (based on public trading data).
- **Key Metric (Annual Revenue)**: €6.76 billion in net revenue in FY 2025.
- **Key Metric (Meals Delivered)**: ~850 million meals delivered in 2025.
- **Key Metric (Employees)**: +29,000 employees globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The company is publicly traded. Key institutional investors include major European and US asset managers. Strategic partnerships exist with various food suppliers and logistics providers.
- **Growth Signals**: The ready-to-eat segment (Factor, Youfoodz) is a major growth driver, now making up a quarter of total revenue. The company is expanding its ready-to-eat offerings into European markets, building on success in North America and Australia. The company operates in 17 countries with 8 different brands.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Data**: With over 18,000 recipes in its database and billions of meals delivered, HelloFresh has an immense dataset on consumer preferences, supply chain optimization, and recipe development, creating a significant moat in logistics and personalization.
- **Vertical Integration**: The direct-to-consumer model gives full control over the supply chain, from sourcing to delivery, enabling efficient operations, competitive pricing, and rapid response to customer needs.
- **Multi-Brand Strategy**: By operating a portfolio of brands (from budget-friendly EveryPlate to premium Factor), HelloFresh captures a wide range of customer segments and price points, reducing reliance on a single offering.
- **Global Footprint**: Presence in 16+ geographies provides diversification and allows for the cross-pollination of best practices and technologies across markets.

## Strategic Focus
- **Accelerating Ready-to-Eat**: The company is aggressively growing its ready-to-eat segment (Factor, Youfoodz) and expanding it into new European markets, seeing it as a high-growth, higher-margin opportunity.
- **Sustainability & Efficiency**: Continuous focus on reducing food waste, optimizing packaging, and improving supply chain sustainability. The company highlights its role in reducing household food waste compared to traditional grocery shopping.
- **Technology & Personalization**: Investing in data science and machine learning to improve menu personalization, demand forecasting, and operational efficiency.
- **International Expansion**: Leveraging success in core markets (US, Germany, Australia) to expand into adjacent geographies and product categories.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "global tech company" with a "local start-up vibe." The company emphasizes a data-driven, entrepreneurial, and ownership-oriented culture. Core values include Ownership, Inclusivity, and Innovation.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: HelloFresh has over 10 employee resource groups (ERGs) and is committed to fostering a sense of belonging. The careers page states, "Everyone is welcome at our table."
- **Work Environment**: The company operates in 17 countries with multiple offices and distribution centers. Roles range from warehouse operations and logistics to software engineering, marketing, and data science.
- **Perks**: The company offers competitive pay and benefits, though specifics vary by location. The culture is described as collaborative, with a focus on "achieving something delicious, every day."
- **Growth Trajectory**: As a rapidly growing public company with a strong focus on innovation and expansion, employees have opportunities to work on high-impact projects and grow their careers across different brands and geographies.

## Sources
1. [hellofreshgroup.com](https://hellofreshgroup.com/en/)
2. [careers.hellofresh.com](https://careers.hellofresh.com/global/en/)
3. [hellofresh.com](https://www.hellofresh.com/about/working-at-hellofresh)
4. [careers.hellofresh.com/leadership](https://careers.hellofresh.com/global/en/leadership-at-hellofresh)
5. [careers.hellofresh.com/locations](https://careers.hellofresh.com/global/en/locations)

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