Senior Backend Product Engineer - Go and/or JVM (all genders)

The role

You will take technical lead on backend-heavy product problems by designing, building, and operating microservices. You will work within cross-functional agile teams to own customer problems from validation to production using a full DevOps model.

What you will do

• Maintain accountability for the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operation of microservices
• Take the technical lead on backend-heavy product problems
• Build event-driven systems utilizing messaging technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS/SNS
• Expose data via clean REST and gRPC interfaces
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automated deployment pipelines
• Maintain a strong commitment to testing from unit tests to full end-to-end coverage
• Collaborate with product leads, frontend engineers, designers, and data teams
• Provide technical guidance and support to team members through code and architecture reviews
• Leverage modern AI tools and workflows to increase productivity
• Instrument, monitor, and improve systems in production

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience working with AI tooling such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot
• Strong fluency in Go or a JVM language (Java/Kotlin)
• Hands on experience building distributed systems in production
• Solid experience building, deploying, and operating critical backend services in a production environment
• Technical comfort navigating distributed systems, messaging queues, containerization, and modern deployment infrastructure
• Strong software engineering instincts including practical application of TDD, BDD, or DDD
• Excellent communication capabilities to operate in an international, multi-disciplinary technical environment
• Ability to take full ownership and a bias to ship
• Product sense and ability to back opinions with data and user evidence

Nice to have

• Willingness to expand technical knowledge into Go

Benefits

• Global collaboration at scale
• Technology with real-world impact
• Technical/Product/Design leadership opportunities
• End-to-end development/delivery
• Access to workspace at Warsaw Centre Point
• Modern facilities including showers, breakout zones, outdoor space, cycle parking, and refreshments

About the company

HelloFresh is a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit provider. HelloTech is a global technology division of over 1,000 people powering an end-to-end food ecosystem.