[TECH] Engineering Manager [CONSUMER]

HelloFresh

Warszawa +1 more

On-site

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience managing distributed engineering teams and building privacy-compliant systems.

Best fit for

Candidates with experience managing distributed engineering teams and leading privacy systems.
— “Experience leading a distributed or multi-location engineering team”
Individuals with a background in scalable microservices and event-driven architectures.
— “Deep experience building scalable microservices and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka)”
Professionals who have successfully balanced regulatory and business requirements in engineering roadmaps.
— “balancing regulatory deadlines, risk reduction, and platform reliability”

Things to consider

The role demands a high level of technical engagement despite not being hands-on.
— “stay technically engaged, reviewing architecture and code, joining incident & debugging sessions”
Candidates should be prepared for global collaboration and cross-tribe coordination.
— “Collaborate with experienced engineers and product partners across HelloFresh's international teams”

How to stand out

Highlight your experience in translating regulatory requirements into engineering roadmaps.
— “translate regulatory and business requirements (GDPR, CCPA, and other regional privacy regulations) into a working roadmap”
Emphasize your background in high-throughput backend systems with strong data consistency.
— “Experience designing and operating high-throughput backend systems that other teams and customer-facing surfaces depend on.”
Showcase your ability to mentor engineers and manage career development effectively.
— “Manage and grow a squad of data privacy, including hiring, performance management, and career development.”
Demonstrate your leadership in promoting privacy-by-design practices and documentation.
— “Champion privacy-by-design practices and clear, accessible documentation across the org.”

Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

lead a squad of product/backend engineers
translate regulatory and business requirements into a working roadmap

Typical background

proven people-management experienceexperience leading a distributed or multi-location engineering team

Skills & requirements

Required

Engineering ManagementMicroservicesEvent-driven SystemsDevOpsCloud PlatformsProduct Adoption Insights

Preferred

Privacy-by-designData PrivacyGDPRCCPA

Stack & domain

Engineering ManagementProduct/backend EngineeringData PrivacyDevOpsCloud PlatformsMicroservicesEvent-driven SystemsKafkaObservabilityProduction OwnershipLeadershipCollaborationCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkEmpathyActive ListeningSelf-organizationCertified ScrummasterPMPPrince2TechnologyCloud Computing

About the role

Original posting from HelloFresh

About the role: What's in the Box
The Data Privacy team sits within the Order & Subscription Experience Tribe, part of the Consumer Alliance. The team is responsible for the systems and guardrails that let HelloFresh handle customer data responsibly at scale. Consent management, Data subject rights, Data retention and minimization, PII discovery and classification, and privacy-by-design tooling embedded into the Hellofresh flows that touch millions of customers globally.
As Engineering Manager, you'll lead a squad of product/backend engineers building and operating these systems, partner closely with a Product Manager & Stakeholders to translate regulatory and business requirements (GDPR, CCPA, and other regional privacy regulations) into a working roadmap, and stay technically engaged, reviewing architecture and code, joining incident & debugging sessions, without being the primary hands-on contributor.
What you’ll do: The Recipe
Manage and grow a squad of data privacy, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
Own the quarterly roadmap for data privacy in partnership with your Product Manager, balancing regulatory deadlines, risk reduction, and platform reliability.
Drive execution on core privacy capabilities: consent and preference management, automated data subject request (DSAR) handling, data retention/deletion pipelines, and PII discovery/classification across Hellofresh domains & systems.
Own operational health of privacy systems. SLAs, data deletion guarantees, audit trail completeness and run postmortems when things go wrong
Partner with Legal, Security, Compliance, and other engineering tribes across the Hellofresh to ensure privacy requirements are embedded early in product and platform design, not bolted on afterward.
Represent data privacy engineering in cross-tribe forums, managing stakeholder expectations and pushing back on off-roadmap requests when needed.
Champion privacy-by-design practices and clear, accessible documentation across the org.
Actively contribute to hiring and capacity planning, conduct regular code reviews, and mentor engineers.
Drive a continuous improvement culture and promote the HelloFresh DNA.
What you’ll bring: The Ingredients
Proven people-management experience: hiring, performance management, and developing engineers
Experience leading a distributed or multi-location engineering team
Deep experience building scalable microservices and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka), especially where correctness, idempotency, and data consistency are critical.
Experience designing and operating high-throughput backend systems that other teams and customer-facing surfaces depend on.
Experience with DevOps practices and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including observability and production ownership.
A collaborative mindset and comfort working cross-functionally with product, frontend, and data partners.
You are an empathetic, strong communicator and active listener.
You are a self-organized individual who can operate autonomously, solve complex problems, and remove roadblocks.
You are a humble leader who can motivate a team and drive them to their highest potential.
What we offer: The Toppings
Global collaboration at scale: Collaborate with experienced engineers and product partners across HelloFresh's international teams, in a culture of active knowledge sharing.
Technology with real-world impact: Build and operate modern systems at global scale, supporting 6+ millions of customers and complex supply chain operations.
Technical/Product/Design leadership: Drive best practices and influence architecture/design, quality, and ways of working in an autonomous, product-led setup.
End-to-end development/delivery: Drive decisions from problem definition to production, improving systems and enabling long-term scalability.
Access to workspace at Warsaw Centre Point. The hub offers modern facilities including showers, breakout zones, outdoor space, cycle parking, and refreshments (coffee, soft drinks, and fruit).

Source: HelloFresh careers