Staff Software Engineer, Supply Chain Management Technology (all genders)

HelloFresh
Berlin, Germany
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level engineers with Golang expertise who thrive in scaling microservices and mentoring peers, based in Berlin with hybrid flexibility.

Best fit for

  • Backend engineers experienced in event-driven architectures and distributed systems scaling.
    — “Solid back-end experience within Microservice architecture using Golang
  • Technologists who balance hands-on coding with architectural mentorship responsibilities.
    — “ambassador for software solutions offering support and mentorship to colleagues
  • Collaborators comfortable interfacing with cross-functional teams across multiple markets.
    — “collaborating with Product Owners, Front-end Engineers, Designers, and Business Intelligence teams

Things to consider

  • Systems must scale to handle 2.4M weekly boxes post-consolidation.
    — “from 1.2 million to over 2.4 million produced boxes per week
  • No people management despite senior technical leadership expectations.
    — “This role does not include people management responsibilities

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate concrete examples of improving team autonomy through architectural boundaries.
    — “achieve a clearer architecture and boundaries between tech teams
  • Showcase Kafka/RabbitMQ implementations that solved specific scaling challenges.
    — “Background working with event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ and/or Kafka
  • Highlight cross-team collaboration experience with non-technical stakeholders.
    — “communicate directly with our business stakeholders and multiple tech teams
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • scaling systems
  • implementing technical solutions
  • supporting autonomy
Typical background
software engineeringmicroservices architectureDevOps

Skills & requirements

Required

Microservices ArchitectureDevops PracticesGoKubernetesEvent-driven Architectures

Preferred

Distributed SystemsTDDBDDDDD

Stack & domain

GoDockerKubernetesCI/CDTddBddDddDistributed ArchitectureEvent-driven ArchitectureKafkaRabbitmqSparkIstioPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBCollaborationMentoringCommunicationSupply Chain ManagementMicroservicesDevOps

About the role

Original posting from HelloFresh

About the role: What's in the Box

As a Staff Engineer in our Supply Chain Management organization, you will be responsible for defining, securing, and implementing technical solutions for business problems. You will play a critical role as our systems scale to handle a jump from 1.2 million to over 2.4 million produced boxes per week due to recent software product consolidation. You will look after speeding up development, decision-making, and problem-solving. You will work with our neighboring teams to ensure that our efforts aim to achieve a clearer architecture and boundaries between tech teams to support autonomy. You will communicate directly with our business stakeholders and multiple tech teams supporting local markets. You will report to the Director of Engineering in the Production tribe. This role does not include people management responsibilities.

What you’ll do: The Recipe

Take ownership of the architecture, design, development, deployment and operations of the microservices you will develop, using DevOps practices, pair programming and other cutting edge methodologies 

Be active, solution-oriented member of autonomous, cross-functional agile teams collaborating with Product Owners, Front-end Engineers, Designers, and Business Intelligence teams 

Having an in-depth understanding of HelloFresh’s core product and architecture, and act as ambassador for software solutions offering support and mentorship to colleagues

Work with state-of-the-art technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark, Kubernetes, Istio, and more

What you’ll bring: The Ingredients 

Solid back-end experience within Microservice architecture using Golang 

Experience working with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes

As well as experience in CI/CD methods and practices

Practical experience of TDD, BDD, DDD and distributed architectural patterns

Background working with event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ and/or Kafka

Experienced in end-to-end development processes, including unit, integration & functional testing, distributed architecture, application tuning/profiling, and continuous integration

Experience working with relational and document databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB

You thrive in the opportunity to collaborate and mentor team members, while also sharing practical knowledge and trends

Interacting with front-end developers, designers, product managers and our teams around the world is very much part of our day-to-day, so communication skills are vital. We are looking for strong problem-solvers who can apply their engineering skills to a wide range of platforms and environments, while also acting as an ambassador to coach team members and stakeholders.

What we offer: The Toppings 

You’ll receive a competitive salary package, including a HelloFresh-subsidized pension scheme.

Enjoy savings on your weekly HelloFresh box.

Support your mental wellbeing with access to platforms like Headspace and Spill.

Stay active with a discounted Urban Sports Club membership and other wellbeing resources.

Balance your life with our flexible hybrid model.

Recharge with sabbatical leave options in addition to standard time off.

Are you the missing ingredient? If this sounds like a tasty opportunity, we’d be excited to hear from you. We aim to review your profile and respond within 5 business days.

Source: HelloFresh careers

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