Backend Engineer, Loyalty & Virality (all genders)
Core
Design and deploy scalable backend services and APIs to drive Loyalty Member ROI, enabling members to earn, track, and spend reward points within the HelloFresh ecosystem.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Loyalty & Virality)
Builds
High-performance backend services and APIs for the Loyalty and Rewards domain
Domain
Direct-to-consumer food subscription (meal kits, ready-to-eat meals)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Go, PHP, JVM languages (Java, Kotlin), microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, unit testing, end-to-end testing
Preferred skills
AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot), cloud technologies
Technologies
Go, PHP, Java, Kotlin, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Design and ship features across the Loyalty and Rewards domain; Design, develop, and deploy high-performance, scalable backend services and APIs; Maintain an aggressive development cadence turning hypotheses into live experiments; Contribute to the hypothesis backlog based on customer behavior data
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC