<p><strong>About the role: What's in the Box</strong></p> <p>Our New Ventures team is focused on growing our global footprint by launching our core products in new markets and expanding across multiple brands and verticals. We’re a globally distributed team operating across 7+ brands in 15+ countries, building desirable products and seamless, engaging experiences that customers haven’t seen before. With many exciting projects underway, we’re driven to generate the next billion-dollar business—so if you’re passionate about tackling bold challenges, join us!</p> <p>We are a close-knit group of engineers of different stripes - developers, designers, and product owners - who are working together to solve interesting e-commerce and supply chain problems around how people eat. Sometimes, this involves implementing features to improve the user<br>journey and making it easier for our customers to buy amazing food. Other times, this means creating stable software solutions that keep our distribution centers running.</p> <p>We are looking for an engineer to help implement solutions & write beautiful code, working with various team members as we build out our consumer facing applications & the infrastructure that supports them. As a member of our Toronto team, you’ll work with highly-skilled engineers, who in collaboration with our other global teams, have turned HelloFresh into the #1 meal delivery service in the world!</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do: The Recipe</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead the design and delivery of scalable backend platforms and distributed systems, leveraging AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows to accelerate delivery and improve system quality.</li> <li>Drive technical discovery, requirements refinement, and solution architecture in ambiguous problem spaces, <strong>translating product and business goals into scalable execution strategies</strong>.</li> <li><strong>Design and optimize AI-enabled development workflows</strong>, including spec-driven development, agent orchestration, context management, automated verification, and quality validation.</li> <li>Partner closely with product, platform, and engineering teams to foster a strong product engineering mindset focused on customer value, experimentation, and measurable outcomes.</li> <li>Lead architectural discussions, mentor engineers in modern backend and AI-assisted engineering practices, and establish standards for observability, quality engineering, and system reliability.</li> <li>Evaluate emerging technologies and AI tooling to continuously enhance engineering effectiveness, software quality, and organizational scalability while ensuring strong human oversight and operational accountability.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You’ll Bring: The Ingredients</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strong experience with microservice architectures, event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ), and distributed systems design patterns.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices in production environments.</li> <li>Proficiency with relational and document databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and/or MongoDB.</li> <li><strong>AI proficiency and advocacy</strong>. Hands-on experience leveraging AI technologies through AI-assisted engineering workflows, LLM integrations, agentic development patterns, or ML-driven product capabilities to improve engineering velocity and product outcomes.</li> <li>Proficiency and production experience with one or more backend languages such as Golang, Python, or Java.</li> <li>Strong communication and collaboration skills. You are comfortable working closely with frontend engineers, designers, product managers, and distributed teams, and can influence technical direction while bringing clarity to complex topics.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we Offer: The Toppings</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><em>Box Discount </em></strong>- Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box.</li> <li><strong><em>Health & Wellness </em></strong>- 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!</li> <li><strong><em>RRSP Matching - </em></strong>Competitive RRSP matching program offered</li> <li><strong><em>Vacation & PTO </em></strong>- 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. </li> <li><strong><em>Family Benefits </em></strong>- A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents.</li> <li><strong><em>Growth & Development</em></strong> - We support your career progression and invest in your continued learning through experiences and initiatives owned by our dedicated L&D team</li> <li><strong><em>Work Hard & Have Fun</em></strong> - From team socials to engaging company days, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!</li> <li><strong><em>Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives </em></strong>- With impactful ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.</li> <li><strong><em>Food Puns</em></strong> - this one is kind of a big