Senior Backend Product Engineer, Menu Planning

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 ApproachAt 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
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