Engineering Manager

Who you are

• You have led a team in an agile environment (5+ engineers), ideally within a cross-functional squad setup
• You bring 6+ years of hands-on backend development experience
• Deep experience building scalable microservices and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka), especially where correctness, idempotency, and data consistency are critical — such as scheduling, subscription management, or other transactional domains
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput backend systems that other teams and customer-facing surfaces depend on
• Experience with DevOps practices and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including observability and production ownership
• A collaborative mindset and comfort working cross-functionally with product, frontend, and data partners
• You are an empathetic, strong communicator and active listener
• You are a self-organized individual who can operate autonomously, solve complex problems, and remove roadblocks
• You are a humble leader who can motivate a team and drive them to their highest potential
• Nice to have: experience with React Native

What the job involves

• As the Engineering Manager for the Deliveries squad at HelloFresh, you will lead the engineering vision and execution for how customers control their box week to week
• Your squad owns the systems that keep a subscription flexing with the customer's life: skip, pause and resume, reschedule, delivery cadence, delivery day, and address changes — the controls a customer uses before an order locks in at cutoff — along with the home and delivery feed that surfaces them
• Delivery planning is where correctness, resilience, and scale matter most: every change a customer makes must be applied accurately and in time before cutoff, and the platform must hold up at HelloFresh scale — around 7 million active customers across 18 countries, with close to 1 billion meals delivered a year
• You and your team will work in a cross-functional squad with product, frontend, and data
• We are looking for a leader who brings deep backend engineering judgement and is energised by collaborating across disciplines to 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'd really like to learn more about you
• Lead, inspire and grow a cross-functional team of engineers (backend and frontend), ensuring smooth delivery and continuous improvement of the Deliveries systems and tech real estate
• Own the architecture and reliability of the delivery-control experience — skip, pause and resume, reschedule, cadence, delivery day, and address — with a strong focus on correctness, applying changes in time before cutoff, data integrity, and operational excellence
• Drive design decisions for scalable, event-driven services (e.g., Kafka) that apply high volumes of delivery changes reliably, with the highest quality and resilience standards
• Operate as an engineering leader within a cross-functional squad: partner closely with product, frontend, and data to deliver end-to-end customer outcomes and make joint decisions across disciplines
• Champion observability, on-call health, and incident readiness so delivery changes stay accurate and available around the clock
• Actively contribute to hiring and capacity planning, conduct regular code reviews, and mentor engineers
• Drive a continuous improvement culture and promote the HelloFresh DNA

Benefits

• 70% discount on HelloFresh or Green Chef boxes
• Group Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work benefit
• Company pension scheme
• Gym membership
• Bupa private medical insurance (including dental & family cover options)
• Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme
• Nursery support scheme