Staff Engineer - Frontend, Growth Alliance

The Growth Alliance enables HelloFresh to expand by getting more customers to try, recommend, and return back to our products. We build digital products that are used by customers all over the world. Our teams work at a global scale on services and products like our scalable web mono repo infrastructure, checkout funnel, discounting and wallet services, price experimentation infrastructure, and referral marketing technology. If you want to build customer-facing products that are used by millions of people around the world and want to change how they eat forever then come join us!

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll join a cross-functional team building features to empower key internal users at HelloFresh to develop and plan the products millions of customers will get access to across our dozen-plus markets. You will develop engaging user experiences iteratively using modern technologies with a focus on accessibility, scalability, and maintainability.

Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

We are a close-knit group of engineers of different stripes - developers, testers, and product owners - who are working together to solve interesting e-commerce and supply chain problems around how people eat. Sometimes, this involves executing experiments to improve the user journey and making it easier for our customers to buy amazing food. Sometimes, this means creating net new stable software solutions that enable the launch of new brands.

We are looking for developers who are excited by great code that scales well. As a member of our Toronto team, you’ll work with highly-skilled engineers who have been solving problems in this space for quite some time, and have turned HelloFresh into the #1 meal delivery service in the world!

Here at HelloFresh, the learning never stops. We expect you to learn every day, both through your work and beyond. We tend to set ambitious learning OKRs for each employee, and then support you through dedicated self-development time.

If you value speed and agility and believe in a data-driven development space, this is the place for you. The ideal candidate for this role will leverage data - test results, logs, defect rates - to ruthlessly prioritize the work that needs to be done and collaborate with both local and international teams to find MVP solutions.

• Take ownership of the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of the microservices you will develop, using DevOps practices, pair programming, and other modern development methodologies.
• Be an active, solution-oriented member of autonomous, cross-functional agile teams collaborating with Product Owners, Engineers, Designers, and Business Intelligence teams.
• Having an in-depth understanding of HelloFresh’s core product and architecture and act as an ambassador for software solutions offering support and mentorship to colleagues.

• Strong engineering and architecture experience interfacing with backend APIs and microservices with past experience building out end-to-end platforms (backend & frontend).
• 5+ years experience developing in Javascript with a minimum of 3 years deploying live applications in ReactJS or NodeJS.
• Proficiency in SEO, including a strong grasp of web crawlers, indexing, and Core Web Vitals.
• Deep knowledge in web development best practices when it comes to the developer experience, website performance & observability (i.e., web design patterns, testing strategies & deployment pipelines).
• Thorough experience mentoring other engineers either 1-on-1 or in group settings.
• Proven ability to present technical ideas to a wide range of audiences, including senior & product leadership.
• Bonus: Working knowledge of mobile app development through React Native or experience leading (or working) on large-scale cross-platform projects.
• Bonus: Past experience building complex consumer-facing e-commerce storefronts, powered by either 3rd-party platforms (such as Shopify or Wix) or built fully in-house.

• Box Discount - Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box.
• Health & Wellness - 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!
• Vacation & PTO - 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.
• Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents.
• Growth & Development - We support your career progression and invest in your continued learning through experiences and initiatives owned by our dedicated L&D team.
• Work Hard & Have Fun - From team socials to engaging company days, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!
• Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - With impactful ERGs like FreshPride, Women Empowered, and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.
• Food Puns - this one is kind of a big dill if you haven’t already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names!

At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience.

To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how often they work from the office and work from home, in addition to team days and company days. This means a minimum of 2 days in the office per week, with most teams in the office between 2-3 days a week.