Backend Developer [Consumer Services]

The Consumer Services Alliance ensures a seamless and consistent experience for customers across all HelloFresh brands globally. The alliance is responsible for cross-cutting services that deliver value through customer benefits, pricing, and manage essential services like account management, subscription, and customer delivery details. By maintaining global consistency and efficiency, we ensure that every customer, regardless of brand or region, enjoys a cohesive, reliable, and rewarding experience with HelloFresh products.

S'more about the team

As an Intermediate Backend Developer in the Consumer Services Alliance, focusing on the Pricing domain, you will play a critical role in designing and developing scalable back-end services built on a distributed architecture. You will lead the migration of key services from a monolithic architecture to a microservices framework, ensuring high performance and reliability. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to solution design that enhances the customer experience. In this role, you will also mentor junior/intermediate engineers, promote best practices, and stay current with industry trends to drive technical excellence within the team.

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.

Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable back-end services, focusing on distributed architecture and microservices.
• Support the migration of critical services from a monolithic architecture to a microservices framework, ensuring seamless integration and high availability.
• Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to ensure optimal efficiency and reliability of pricing services.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, applying relevant advancements to improve the team’s technology stack and processes.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and decisions, providing insight to shape the overall direction of solution design.

Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for

• Experience: Experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on back-end development and system architecture.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in back-end technologies and programming languages (e.g., Go, Java) and a deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Migration Expertise: Exposure to migrating applications from monolithic architectures to microservices, demonstrating strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Cloud Proficiency: Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for deploying and managing services at scale.
• Agile Methodologies: Solid experience in Agile development practices, with an ability to adapt to changing priorities and deliver high-quality results on time.
• Analytical Mindset: Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
• Communication Skills: Effective verbal and written communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Let’s cut to the cheese, this is 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!
• 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 Approach

At 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.

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