Engineering Manager, Consumer Alliance (m/f/x)

HelloFresh
Berlin
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Cross-functional collaboration","Problem-solving","Autonomy"]

Lead the engineering vision and execution for the Deliveries squad, owning the systems that power customer box controls like skip, pause, resume, reschedule, delivery cadence/day, and address changes. Ensure correctness, resilience, and scalability for high-volume delivery planning before cutoff, collaborating with product, frontend, and data. Drive event-driven backend architecture (e.g., Kafka), observability, on-call readiness, reliability, hiring, and continuous improvement.

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HelloFresh
3 days ago

Engineering Manager, Consumer Alliance (m/f/x)

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering vision and execution for the Deliveries squad, owning the systems that power customer box controls like skip, pause, resume, reschedule, delivery cadence/day, and address changes. Ensure correctness, resilience, and scalability for high-volume delivery planning before cutoff, collaborating with product, frontend, and data. Drive event-driven backend architecture (e.g., Kafka), observability, on-call readiness, reliability, hiring, and continuous improvement.
Location: Berlin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, inspire, and grow a cross-functional team of engineers (backend and frontend) for the Deliveries systems and technology real estate.
  • •Own the architecture and reliability of delivery-control experience, ensuring changes are correct, applied before cutoff, and maintain data integrity.
  • •Drive scalable, event-driven service design decisions (e.g., Kafka) to handle high volumes of delivery changes with resilience and quality.
  • •Partner with product, frontend, and data to deliver end-to-end customer outcomes within the cross-functional squad.
  • •Champion observability, on-call health, incident readiness, and continuously improve delivery accuracy and availability; also contribute to hiring, capacity planning, and code reviews.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:PensionGym MembershipLearning BudgetSabbatical LeaveMeal Deals

Key Requirements

  • •Led a team in an agile environment (5+ engineers), ideally within a cross-functional squad setup.
  • •6+ years of hands-on backend development experience.
  • •Deep experience building scalable microservices and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka) with correctness, idempotency, and data consistency needs.
  • •Experience designing and operating high-throughput backend systems relied on by other teams and customer-facing surfaces.
  • •DevOps practices and cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including observability and production ownership.
Experience:6+ years
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationCross-functional collaborationProblem-solvingAutonomy
Tech Stack:KafkaMicroservicesAWSAzureGoogle CloudEvent-driven architecture

Company Brief

HelloFresh
HelloFresh is a meal-kit and food subscription company that delivers fresh ingredients and recipes to consumers, offering convenient home-cooked meals through weekly subscription boxes across multiple international markets.
Industry: FoodTech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2011
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