Staff Backend Engineer, Customer Value Optimisation

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.

The Role

We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Customer Value Optimization (CVO) tribe at HelloFresh. This is a high-impact individual contributor role sitting at the intersection of Data Science and Backend Engineering — you'll be the technical bridge that turns ML models into reliable, scalable production systems.

You'll work across squads within the CVO tribe, partnering closely with Data Scientists and Backend Engineers to define how we serve ML models at scale, raise the technical bar, and accelerate the tribe's ability to deliver value to our customers.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and own robust, scalable infrastructure for live serving of ML models in production
• Act as the technical bridge between Data Science and Backend Engineering teams within the CVO tribe — translating DS needs into scalable engineering solutions
• Define and drive best practices for model serving, APIs, and system design across squads
• Lead cross-squad technical initiatives, from architecture decisions to hands-on implementation
• Partner with Data Scientists to ensure models are production-ready — performant, observable, and maintainable
• Contribute to tribe-wide engineering standards and shape the technical roadmap
• Mentor and support engineers across squads without direct line management responsibility

What you'll bring

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong foundation in Python
• Proven experience building and operating ML model serving systems or ML platforms in production
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architecture
• Strong track record of working across team boundaries to deliver complex, cross-functional projects
• Excellent communication skills — able to work fluently with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Data Engineers
• A collaborative, low-ego approach with strong technical judgment

Nice to Have

• Experience with ML frameworks and serving tools
• Familiarity with feature stores, model registries, or MLOps tooling
• Background in e-commerce, subscription, or personalization domains

New York Pay Range $156,800—$261,300 USD Colorado Pay Range $146,600—$244,300 USD

About HelloFresh

We believe that sharing a meal brings people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures together. We are committed to celebrating all dimensions of diversity in the workplace equally and ensuring that everyone feels a sense of inclusion and belonging. We also aim to extend this commitment to the partners we work with and the communities we serve. We are constantly listening, learning, and evolving to deliver on these principles. We are proud of our collaborative culture. Our diverse employee population enables us to connect with our customers and turn their feedback into meaningful action - from developing new recipes to constantly improving our process of getting dinner to our customers’ homes. Our culture attracts top talent with shared values and forms the foundation for a great place to work!

At HelloFresh, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations, up to the point of undue hardship, to candidates at any stage, including to individuals with disabilities.

We want to adapt our processes and create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate our process. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with us in the application form.

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