Senior Backend Engineer - Deliveries & Orders

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

Work with the company in Warsaw and its HelloTech organisation, the company global technology backbone with more than 1000 people, building the digital products that power the end-to-end food experience. From meal kits and ready-to-eat meals to specialty offerings like pet food and premium meat & seafood, HelloTech creates the platforms that bring tailored food solutions to millions of customers every month.

The subscription-based, direct-to-consumer model relies on technology at every step, from customer-facing apps and personalization logic to pricing, forecasting, supply chain optimization, and initiatives that help reduce food waste. HelloTech works in autonomous, cross-functional alliances, each having accountability for a specific product or domain end-to-end. By working with the Warsaw office, the service provider will help shape scalable, data-driven products used across markets, working with a modern tech stack and international teams to continuously improve how people discover, order, and enjoy the company products.

About the Role: What's in the Box

The position is part of the Consumer Alliance - Deliveries and Orders Squad, which has the mission to maximize retention of new and active customers by managing the complete order lifecycle. This squad is accountable for some of the company most critical backend systems that process millions of orders globally.

The service provider will work with backend event-driven systems assisting millions of customers globally in the journey from subscription activation through to the cutoff moment—when orders are finalized and handed off to fulfillment teams. The focus is on ensuring customers have the right deliveries scheduled with rich flexibility features and correct orders successfully created at a right time of user choosing. This role does not include people management responsibilities.

What You’ll Do: The Recipe

• Work on the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of microservices, using DevOps practices, extreme programming, and other methodologies utilizing modern AI workflows.

• Be an active, highly-agent and solution-oriented member of autonomous, cross-functional agile teams.

• Maintain an in-depth understanding of the core product and architecture, acting as an ambassador for software solutions and offering technical support and guidance to colleagues.

• Work with state-of-the-art technologies like Golang, Kotlin, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and more.

• Contribute to architectural decisions, providing technical insights to shape the overall direction of solution design.

What You’ll Bring: The Ingredients

• Strong background in backend development of highly-available event-driven (Kafka) distributed systems with rich integrations.

• Meaningful experience using AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) as part of a regular workflow. This includes using AI agents as thought partners to navigate codebases and understanding how task framing affects result quality.

• Proven ability to build architectures using messaging technologies such as Kafka and AWS SQS/SNS and expose data via future-proof REST API and gRPC interfaces.

• Proficiency with Golang; a willingness to learn Kotlin is also welcome.

• Practical knowledge of Docker, container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, and CI/CD implementation.

• Deep understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL; knowledge of MongoDB and/or GraphQL is a plus.

• Solid foundation in testing practices, including both unit and end-to-end testing.

What We Offer: The Toppings

• Global collaboration at scale: Collaborate with experienced engineers and product partners across HelloTech’s international teams, in a culture of active knowledge sharing.

• Technology with real-world impact: Build and operate modern systems at global scale, supporting millions of customers and complex supply chain operations.

• Technical/Product/Design leadership: Drive best practices and influence architecture, quality, and ways of working in an autonomous setup.

• End-to-end delivery: Drive decisions from problem definition to production, enabling long-term scalability.

• Access to workspace at Warsaw Centre Point: Facilities include breakout zones, outdoor space, cycle parking, and refreshments (coffee, soft drinks, and fruit).

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