Staff Engineer

About the Role

Join HelloFresh’s procurement tech team as a Staff Engineer, a vital part of our supply chain management (SCM) organization, responsible for sourcing the ingredients for our delicious recipes. You’ll work on a greenfield project, developing a new supplier relationship portal to enhance communication and efficiency between purchasers and suppliers. This portal will track supplier performance, ensure accountability, and provide a comprehensive dashboard to score suppliers on key metrics. Enjoy an agile work environment focused on quick deliveries and continuous improvement. Benefit from opportunities for coaching and mentoring as you contribute to building innovative systems from the ground up.

What You’ll Do  

• Improve Integration: Enhance consistency and integration between services within your team’s software and across different domains.
• Strategic Influence: Shape your team’s technical and business strategy through insightful contributions to priorities and approaches.
• Solve Architectural Challenges: Lead efforts to identify and resolve architectural deficiencies that hinder innovation.
• Design Leadership: Conduct and participate in design reviews, heavily influencing and writing critical-path code.
• Collaborate: Engage in pair/mob programming, discovery workshops, technical spikes, katas, and code reviews.
• Maintain Standards: Uphold high standards in engineering practices, focusing on quality, reliability, scalability, and customer focus.
• Deliver Value: Use agile methodologies, DevOps, and continuous delivery practices to provide incremental and continuous business value.
• Continuous Improvement: Apply best practices and methodologies to continuously enhance your craft.
• Mentor and Grow: Mentor and develop other engineers through coaching and group exercises.

What You’ll Bring

• Engineering Excellence: Proven track record of helping your team build great products while ensuring high standards.
• Quality Focus: Relentless drive to improve software quality, reliability, and reduce complexity.
• Effective Communication: Clear and effective communication skills, including with non-technical stakeholders.
• Agile Experience: Experience in end-to-end agile software development and delivery processes.
• Microservices Expertise: Solid exposure to microservices and distributed system architectures, using Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Advanced Architectures: Prior experience in domain-driven design and event-driven architecture is a plus.
• Relevant Experience: Logistics or supply chain management experience is beneficial but not essential.

Who You Are

• Team Player: You thrive in a collaborative environment and embody team spirit.
• Lifelong Learner: Willing to expand your knowledge in areas like retail, food, recipes, logistics, customer care, and warehousing.
• Customer-Focused: Obsessed with helping people and providing solutions that enhance the customer experience.

What You’ll Get in Return  

• Supportive Culture: A nurturing engineering and team culture.
• Growth Opportunities: Develop within a large global engineering organisation (700+ engineers) with chances for lateral moves between technology hubs.
• Perks: Enjoy a significant discount on HelloFresh meal kits (70% off from your first day).
• Continuous Development: Access to external courses and a sabbatical policy for personal growth.
• Vibrant Culture: Be part of a diverse and international environment, with offices in 16 countries.

We believe in the value of diverse experiences and are eager to learn more about you, even if you don't tick all the boxes. If you’re ready to make HelloFresh better, we’d love to hear from you!

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