Backend Engineer

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 – solving e‑commerce and supply‑chain problems around how people eat. Sometimes this involves implementing features to improve the user journey and make 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 and write beautiful code, working with various team members as we build out our consumer‑facing applications and 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 Hello Fresh into the #1 meal delivery service in the world!

• Lead the design and delivery of scalable backend platforms and distributed systems, leveraging AI‑assisted and agentic engineering workflows to accelerate delivery and improve system quality.
• Drive technical discovery, requirements refinement, and solution architecture in ambiguous problem spaces, translating product and business goals into scalable execution strategies.
• Design and optimize AI‑enabled development workflows, including spec‑driven development, agent orchestration, context management, automated verification, and quality validation.
• Partner closely with product, platform, and engineering teams to foster a strong product engineering mindset focused on customer value, experimentation, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead architectural discussions, mentor engineers in modern backend and AI‑assisted engineering practices, and establish standards for observability, quality engineering, and system reliability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI tooling to continuously enhance engineering effectiveness, software quality, and organizational scalability while ensuring strong human oversight and operational accountability.

• Strong experience with microservice architectures, event‑driven systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and distributed systems design patterns.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices in production environments.
• Proficiency with relational and document databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or MongoDB.
• AI proficiency and advocacy. Hands‑on experience leveraging AI technologies through AI‑assisted engineering workflows, LLM integrations, agentic development patterns, or ML‑driven product capabilities to improve engineering velocity and product outcomes.
• Proficiency and production experience with one or more backend languages such as Golang, Python, or Java.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Comfortable working closely with frontend engineers, designers, product managers, and distributed teams, and can influence technical direction while bringing clarity to complex topics.

• Box Discount – Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly Hello Fresh 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 Good Life fitness memberships!
• Vacation & PTO – 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 – Career progression support and investment in continued learning through experiences and initiatives owned by our dedicated L&D team.
• Work Hard & Have Fun – Team socials and engaging company days offer…