[TECH] Staff Backend Engineer [CONSUMER]
Core
Lead technical architecture for unified AI Assistant experiences including conversational search, personalized search, and proactive in-app recommendations within HelloFresh's shopping journey.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (AI Systems & Search)
Builds
Unified AI Assistant experiences, conversational search, personalized recommendations
Domain
Consumer food delivery, AI-powered search and recommendation systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, Go, LLM integration, cloud infrastructure, observability, technical leadership, AI coding tools
Preferred skills
Search or recommendation systems experience
Technologies
Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Claude, Cursor
Responsibilities
Lead technical architecture for AI Assistant experiences, own end-to-end technical decisions for LLM integration, act as technical bridge between squads, define engineering best practices for probabilistic systems, provide technical leadership and mentoring, shape technical roadmap
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence