This is a high-impact individual contributor role sitting at the intersection of Food Systems and Backend Engineering — you'll be the technical bridge that identifies business and technical gaps and works with business leads to turn requirements into scalable production systems and solutions. You'll work across squads within the Food Systems alliance, partnering closely with Backend Engineers to ensure E2E menu operational efficiencies are met, raise the technical bar, and accelerate the tribe's ability to deliver value to our customers. Act as the technical bridge between Food Systems business leads and Backend Engineering teams within the Ingredient to Product tribe — translating 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 Contribute to tribe-wide engineering standards and shape the technical roadmap 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with a robust foundation in Python, Kotlin, GoLang ~ Proven track record in taking architectural decisions about the development and maintenance of large-scale distributed systems and integrations with applications and user interfaces ~ Strong track record of working across team boundaries to deliver complex, cross-functional projects ~ Meaningful experience using AI coding agents (e.g., A collaborative, low-ego approach with strong technical judgment 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. 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 ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.

Flexible Hybrid Approach 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 office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week. #HelloFresh Canada uses AI-integrated technology to help us process and evaluate applications more efficiently. While these tools assist our workflow, all final selection decisions are made by our hiring team. 150,000 - $200,000 CAD

📌 Staff Engineer, Operations Technology (Toronto)
🏢 HelloFresh
📍 Toronto